“I hope that Peru will vote in favor of the resolution against the blockade, which is already a decades-old tradition in our foreign policy,” the sociologist told Prensa Latina regarding the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba.

She thus referred to the fact that Peru’s vote on the issue, under governments of different trends, has been for three decades a vote “of respect for Cuba’s sovereignty and of rejection of the interventionist policy of the blockade that basically affects the Cuban people.

She added that Washington’s blockade against Cuba is a stagnant policy, which comes from the times of the Cold War and expresses an imperialist and colonialist attitude that is only supported by some countries and lately only the United States and Israel.

The former minister pointed out that the blockade affects Cuba, especially at crucial times, for example during the Covid-19 pandemic, when it prevented the Caribbean island from acquiring medicines, supplies, and medical equipment.

“It is more than proven that the blockade only affects the Cuban people and only demonstrates the imposition of an imperialist policy by the United States that, despite all the changes that have taken place in the world, it continues maintaining these practices,” he asserted.

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