A more than half a century old United States economic embargo against Cuba came into the spotlight at the 77th session of the United States General Assembly when Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez launched a spirited salvo against the strictures imposed against his country in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York earlier this week.
In his address to the single largest gathering of world leaders the Cuban Foreign Minister described the strictures as “vast, cruel and immoral”.
Rodriguez railed against the measures that include “reinforcing pressure on banking institutions, companies and governments throughout the world” which he said were “interested in establishing relations with Cuba”. He added that in its quest to “bring about the economic collapse of the nation” (Cuba) Washington persists in “obsessive pursuit of “all sources of foreign exchange coming into the country”, a strategy which he said was designed “to bring about the economic collapse of the nation.
