The government of Nicaragua asks the United States to lift the embargo on Cuba

MANAGUA, September 30 (EFE): The President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, on Friday asked the United States to lift the economic embargo (blockade) against Cuba.

Ortega shouted at a celebration marking the 43rd anniversary of the National Police, broadcast on the radio and television website.

This set of economic, commercial and financial sanctions, which began six decades ago and were gradually tightened until the last 234 actions of the former US President, Donald Trump, is one of the reasons for the current crisis that the country is going through. According to Ortega.

“There has been no blockade as brutal as the one against Cuba,” said the Sandinista president, who expressed solidarity with his Cuban ally, Miguel Diaz-Canel.

For Ortega, Cuba “is going through really hard times, the blockade has been tightened, difficult situations have arisen, even with this hurricane (Ian) that just passed” through the island.

“The country is besieged and a hurricane is crossing with devastating force, causing destruction, killing and impact on the entire population because even the energy and energy sources have been shaken and damaged by the hurricane,” he said.

He predicted that “Cuba will emerge victorious once again with the solidarity of the peoples of the world.”

He noted that “if the (US) blockade is lifted, we can believe that there is a little humanity in the rulers of the United States.”

According to Cuba, only in the first fourteen months of the rule of the current US President, Joe Biden, the cost of the embargo amounted to 6,364 million dollars.

During his speech, the police chief ratified his “loyalty and obedience to the supreme command” of the national police, headed by Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo. EFE

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