This blockade is “illegal, immoral, genocidal, and universally condemned,” the researcher said in a statement that also affirms Cuba’s unwavering resistance in unmasking the criminal blockade and building global solidarity.

According to Mafa, for more than six decades, the Cuban people have endured one of the most brutal and persistent acts of imperialist aggression in modern history, a hostile policy that is intensifying with surgical precision as a weapon to strangle the economy, undermine the Revolution, and provoke social collapse.

The recent report (May 2025) on this genocidal practice, he remembered, exposes its devastating impact, while celebrating the global rejection of US coercion.

He also recalled Lester Mallory’s “infamous 1960 memorandum,” which openly admits the goal of denying money and supplies to “cause hunger, desperation, and the overthrow of the government.”

This is nothing less than an imperialist siege, an act of collective punishment prohibited by international law, which has cost over $170 billion in cumulative damage by 2025.

What makes Cuba extraordinary is not only its survival, but also its refusal to surrender its dignity. The call to lift the blockade is not an act of charity, but a call for justice, he concluded.

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