French Senators Demand End of US Blockade of Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Paris, Jan 23 (Prensa Latina) The France-Caribbean parliamentarian group of friendship of the French Senate demanded the end of the US blockade of Cuba in a private letter to the US Senate President Mike Pence, diplomatic sources reported today.

According to the text of the letter also addressed to the US vice president, the blockade should end, because it is a hindrance for the economic development of Cuba and makes a direct impact on the Cuban population's welfare.

'We honestly regret the backward movement observed some months ago in the relations between the United States and Cuba. We are calling to a more comprehensive negotiation between both countries and the lifting of the blockade,' the letter read.

They also recalled in the letter that on November 1, 2017, the United Naitons General Assembly adopted a resolution on the need to put an end to the economic, trade and financial blockade of Cuba imposed by the United States.

http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=23769&SEO=french-senators-demand-end-of-us-blockade-of-cuba

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Uh...there is no "blockade" of Cuba by the USA

There may be an embargo however.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Boom! There ya go.

A lot of people throughout the world do refer to the embargo as "El Bloqueo," nevertheless.

[GatoGordo]

3. There is no blockade.

Companies, and nations are free to do whatever business they choose in Cuba.

Canada sends nearly a million tourist there each year.

Saying there is an blockade is pure hyperbole.

[Judi Lynn]

4. You'd be doing yourself a favor to invest a little time educating yourself on the subject.

What on earth do you imagine could be the reason the UN General Assembly has voted to condemn the embargo every year for at least 17 years or more? What do you imagine they are thinking? Nothing, at all, as you say, since there's nothing being done to Cuba by the U.S.?

You should try to make a speech there sometime this year year to enlighten all those ambassadors or delegates or whatever from so many countries so they won't be going through empty, meaningless acts any longer.

[GatoGordo]

5. I know exactly why the extreme Left has their undies in a twist about Cuba

Hyperbole doesn't help their specious arguments

Every nation on this planet has the right to embrace commerce with Cuba the way they see fit.

The United States has chosen to economically embargo Cuba. There is no blockade.

Of course, should Cuba decide to embrace actual some basic tenets of democracy, I am sure that the EMBARGO would end within days.