Cuba denounces multi-million damage to telecoms due to US blockade

In the Special Political and Decolonization Commission of the United Nations, Cuba denounced issues related to information about the million-dollar damage caused to telecommunications by the United States blockade, as well as the use of cyberspace attempts to subvert the constitutional order.

The first vice minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Gerardo Peñalver, assured that between March 2022 and February 2023, the economic damages to the communications and computing sector, are estimated at 41 million 270 thousand 50 dollars.

The Cuban Telecommunications Company was the entity most affected, registering 40,901,400 dollars in losses, approximately 99.1 percent of the total damages.

Peñalver specified that the blockade and the pressure on entities with commercial relations with the Cuban communications company, and on others interested in negotiating with it, continue negatively affecting the possibility of Cubans to have an adequate infrastructure, greater access to the Internet, and the computerization of society.

“No country can conduct a process of technological modernization in these very adverse conditions,” he denounced.

The United States uses cyberspace to try to subvert the Cuban constitutional order, for which it uses digital platforms with particular viciousness, he said. To do this, they finance the development of platforms for the generation of ideological content that openly call for the overthrow of the constitutional order.

“The United States promotes calls for demonstrations in public spaces, and even incites sabotage, attacks and terrorist acts, including the murder of law enforcement agents and government representatives,” he added.