U.S. policy of interference against Cuba rejected in Peru

Peru's former Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations, Anahi Durand, rejected the U.S. blockade against Cuba and said she hopes her country will vote against this policy at the United Nations.

"I hope that Peru will vote in favor of the resolution against the blockade, which is already a decades-long tradition in our foreign policy," the sociologist told Prensa Latina about the economic, commercial and financial blockade against the island.

She thus referred that Peru's vote on the issue, under governments of different signs, has been for three decades a vote of "respect for Cuba's sovereignty and rejection of the blockade's interference policy that basically affects the Cuban people.

She said that the blockade of Cuba is an outdated policy that comes from the times of the Cold War and expresses an imperialist and colonialist attitude that is only supported by some countries and lately only by the United States and Israel.

The former minister added that the blockade affects Cuba, especially at crucial moments, for example during the Covid-19 pandemic, when it prevented the island from acquiring medicines, supplies and medical equipment.

"It is more than demonstrated that the blockade only affects the Cuban people and only demonstrates the imposition of an imperialist policy of the United States that, despite all the changes that have taken place in the world, continues to maintain these practices," she asserted. (Source:PL)