Cuba lost more than 150 billion dollars due to the U.S. blockade

Havana, April 25 (RHC)-- The damages caused by the United States to Cuba during more than 60 years of economic, commercial and financial blockade total 150.410 billion dollars, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said Monday

In an appearance before the national and foreign press, the Minister of Foreign Affairs explained that such losses amount to one trillion 326 billion 432 million dollars when the depreciation of the dollar against the value of gold in the international market is taken into account.

That is more than 12 million dollars a day and more than 365 million dollars a month to the detriment of a small and underdeveloped economy like Cuba's, he stressed.

Rodríguez said that this has an impact on the daily life of Cuban families and is one of the causes of emigration from the island, fundamentally economic.

At the same time, he criticized, the United States applies a selective and discriminatory migratory policy toward Cubans.

Washington impedes travel, cuts off channels for regular and orderly emigration, and fails to comply with agreements by which it committed itself to grant no less than 20,000 immigrant visas to citizens of the island, he remarked.