Diaz-Canel reaffirms Cuba's resistance to US blockade

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Diaz-Canel reaffirms Cuba's resistance to US blockade

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10 September 2020

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Havana, Sep 10 (Prensa Latina) The president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has reaffirmed his country's resistance against the blockade of the United States, following president Donald Trump's signing again for one more year of the Trading with the Enemy Act, one of the pillars that sustains it.

'The blockade and harassment are intensifying, anger and perversity are growing. An inhuman and cruel blockade. But no one will surrender,' the Cuban head of state tweeted.

The Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 is one of the regulations that support the economic, commercial and financial blockade maintained by the United States over Cuba for almost six decades.

Trump decided last Wednesday to extend the validity of the Act for Cuba for another year, due to 'national interest of the United States', according to the statement.

In addition, Trump expanded his powers to have greater freedom of action in terms of compliance with sanctions and regarding the issuance of permits for individual transactions.

The Trading with the Enemy Act has been renewed year after year, after President John Kennedy resorted to it in 1962 to impose restrictions on Cuba, with the purpose of creating a complex economic situation that would reduce support for the revolutionary government.