Cuba denounces effects of US blockade in Barbados
Cuba denounces effects of US blockade in Barbados
Bridgetown, Jul 20 (Prensa Latina) Ambassador to Barbados Sergio Pastrana denounced the effects of the United States economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba for over six decades, local media reported on Tuesday.
Interviewed by the Barbados Today newspaper on the recent disturbances that took place in Cuba, Pastrana said that the situation faced by his country is the result of the effects of the long and tightened blockade by the United States.
The enforcement of 243 coercive measures under the former Donald Trump administration tightened that unilateral policy amid the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, he assured.
Havana wants more trade with B’town
Article by July 20, 2021
Cuban Ambassador to Barbados Sergio Pastrana is eager to see the removal of the US restrictions so that commerce between Bridgetown and Havana could increase.
In an interview with
Barbados TODAY on the recent protests in his homeland, Pastrana said the situation facing his home country was as a result of “the effects of the long and increased blockade by the United States”, which has been made worse by the “stress of the pandemic”.
There are more than 240 US sanctions against Cuba, businesses operating in Cuba and individuals.
“These measures even went to the extreme of prohibiting the companies that normally sell pulmonary ventilators to Cuba to continue to selling them,” said Pastrana, who added that getting parts to carry out repairs has also proven difficult.
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Cuban COVID team to stay another six months
Article by April 8, 2021
A year after arriving here to join the frontline battle against the coronavirus, the Cuban medical team is to stay here until early October, at the request of Barbadian authorities.
To seal the deal, representatives of the Ministry of Health and the government in Havana, Wednesday signed yet another six-month extension agreement – the third – at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Culloden Road.
In this Cuban embassy photo, Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland (second from left), executive chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, signed the agreement with Cuba’s Ambassador Sergio Pastrana, flanked by Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM David Comissiong (left) and Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George (right).