Havana, Nov 24 .- French officials expressed their support to Cuba, and condemned the economic blockade that the  United States has imposed on the island nation for almost half a century.

By Orlando de la Cruz Barbán

At the UN General Assembly headquarters, for eighteenth times in a row, an overwhelming majority of countries -now by a margin of 187-3- said NO to the genocidal and criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade that the United States of America have kept against Cuba for almost 50 years. Only three nations Israel, Palau and, of course, USA voted against the Cuban draft resolution that claimed the end of such an injustice.

Speech by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla at the United Nations General Assembly under the item "Necessity to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba".
(NEW YORK, OCTOBER 28, 2009)

Camagüey, Oct 28.- After having seen on television how the majority of the countries pronounced themselves against the economic, financial and commercial blockade that the United States have imposeed on Cuba over decades, Camagüeyan Mercedes Bartutis, expressed that now it depends on Barack Obama’s administration to end this reactionary and extraterritorial policy that disobeys the international laws.

By: Orlando de la Cruz Barban

The Cuban people have an amazing history of struggles for achieving the true independence, conflicts that date back to even 1868, when the Spaniards ruled the Cuban archipelago.