The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, advocated this Friday for the end of the blockade imposed by the Government of the United States on the peoples of Cuba and Venezuela while calling for the unity of the Latin American continent.
Telesur reported that the South American president called during a seminar of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to the cessation of the severe coercive measures imposed by the White House.
In this sense, the head of state stated in the closing panel of the CELAC-CAF International Seminar “Latin America and the Caribbean, the future of integration: United in Diversity” that “we also have to work so that the blockades are ended on this continent. We have two countries blocked and that is inexcusable.”
Fernández pointed out that Cuba has suffered the impacts of the economic blockadecommercial and financial for “more than six decades”, meanwhile, pointed out that “now Venezuela” is also sanctioned.
In this regard, the owner of the Pink House He specified that “we hope that this will end soon,” while expressing that the blockade against Venezuela must end so that its people can live “choosing freely as they want.”
peace territory
“This is a peace territory, that’s an advantage. If we add unity and institutionality to that, putting them at the service of the region, we have an opportunity to be a great continent,” said the Argentine president.
Similarly, Alberto Fernández highlighted the achievements of Cuban science, especially its ability to produce vaccines against covid-19, while recalling that due to the consequences of the blockade, the Antillean country has not been able to market the drugs on a large scale. scale.
Likewise, he called for Latin American integration through greater institutionalization of CELAC so that “it becomes a place that allows us to make decisions that all countries will have to comply with later.”
