Mexico City, Feb 14 (Prensa Latina) The renowned Mexican newspaper La Jornada addresses today in its pages the international denunciations against the energy blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba and its impacts on the population of the Caribbean country.
On its front page, the news outlet refers to the warnings from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding the effects of the oil blockade on access to food, water and health in the Caribbean nation.
The spokesperson for that organization, Marta Hurtado, pointed out that intensive care units and emergency rooms are at risk, as well as the production, supply and storage of vaccines, blood products and other temperature-sensitive medicines.
High Commissioner Volker Türk reiterates his call to lift all unilateral measures due to their broad and indiscriminate impact on the population, the statement notes, stressing that such actions constitute a violation of human rights.
This statement comes after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January declaring a supposed national emergency and establishing a process to apply tariffs to goods from countries that supply crude oil to Cuba.
The Republican’s decree, another turn of the screw in the economic siege imposed for more than 60 years, is part of Washington’s current maximum pressure policy against that country, and attempts to justify it with the interest of national security and the foreign policy of the United States.
La Jornada also refers to the impact of the controversial measure on food production and management in Cuba, and the possibility mentioned yesterday by President Claudia Sheinbaum of opening an air bridge to deliver aid, if Havana requests it.
On Thursday, the ships Papaloapan and Isla Holbox, of the Mexican Navy, arrived in Havana with some 814 tons of basic food and hygiene items, after departing on Sunday bound for the Caribbean nation.
“As soon as the ships return, we will send more support of different kinds,” the head of the Executive stated that day.
Solidarity was also evident from the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena), and groups such as the Militant Solidarity Collective Goes for Cuba and the Association of Cubans Residing in Mexico, which called on the population to support the island with food supplies.
In what it described as an act of consistency and Latin American brotherhood, the Morena parliamentary group in the Congress of this capital, together with the State Executive Committee of the political formation, also announced the start of a solidarity campaign.
In addition, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Assembly of Postgraduate Students in Latin American Studies invited people to join in the collection of food supplies in another initiative from the 17th to the 20th of this month.
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