The complete quantity of damages to Cuba ensuing from the blockade between March 1, 2025, and February 28, 2026, reached a report determine of 8 billion 83 million 300 thousand USD ($8,083,300,000 USD), in response to Mrs Miriam Morales Palmero, Cuba Ambassador to Nigeria.
In a short shared with Daily Trust on Wednesday forward of votes on the US blockade on Cuba on the UNGA on October 28, she stated the large scale of those damages comes as no shock, saying the US had intensified its suffocation of her nation over the past year.
“Throughout this year, the US authorities has intensified its makes an attempt to utterly suffocate and isolate Cuba via an unprecedented reinforcement of the blockade and multidimensional aggression in opposition to the nation.
“As a consequence, the Cuban people have suffered a decline in their quality of life and incalculable humanitarian harm,” Amb. Palmero stated.
She alleged that the US Secretary of State bears major duty for this macabre design in opposition to Cuba and its devastating humanitarian and financial penalties.
“On January 29, 2026, an power siege in opposition to Cuba was formalised beneath the absurd justification of contemplating our nation an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to the US nationwide safety.
“On that date, the US President signed an Executive Order (EO 14380) authorising the imposition of further tariffs on imports from any nation that sells or provides oil to Cuba, instantly or not directly.
“The power siege and the utmost stress coverage have the declared goal of producing social unrest in Cuba that, in flip, results in a change in the constitutional order freely and sovereignly chosen by our folks.
“This constitutes an act of collective punishment against the Cuban population. It is a grave violation of International Law, International Human Rights Law, and even International Humanitarian Law, even though no conventional state of war exists between the US and Cuba,” the Ambassador stated.
Several particular procedures of the Human Rights Council, in addition to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, have expressed concern over how these restrictions are placing important providers—akin to healthcare, meals, and water programs—in danger nationwide on account of their heavy reliance on imported fuels.
Amb. Palmero stated Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 on International Humanitarian Law establishes that collective penalties are prohibited—a scenario to which the whole Cuban inhabitants is definitely being subjected beneath the aforementioned power siege.
“The Executive Order of January 29, 2026, violates the sovereign rights of third States, particularly in the realm of their business relations, as they’re threatened with secondary coercive measures if they provide gas to Cuba.
“The United States authorities determined to extend its stress on Cuba even additional by issuing one other Executive Order (EO 14404) on May 1, 2026.
“Also, beneath the pretext of Cuba being a menace to the US nationwide safety, this order exacerbates the extraterritorial nature of the siege by imposing ‘secondary’ sanctions.
“It allows for the freezing of assets and the restriction of operations of any foreign individual or entity operating in sectors deemed strategic to the Cuban economy, explicitly naming energy, mining, finance, security, and defence,” she stated.
She stated Cuba reaffirms its willingness to proceed respectful dialogue and cooperation on problems with mutual curiosity, in addition to to barter pending bilateral issues with the US based mostly on equality, reciprocity, and respect for sovereignty and nationwide independence.
While calling on the worldwide neighborhood to proceed supporting her nation, the ambassador stated supporting Cuba at this time is an act of braveness, justice, and historic duty, in addition to a stand in favour of the rules of International Law.
“If US imperialism is allowed to destroy Cuba—which won’t give up—who would come subsequent? What will the world seem like? What will occur to the present worldwide order?
“All independent and sovereign nations will be in greater danger if the US government’s current trend, which violates International Law, is not stopped,” she stated.
She stated as a part of the efforts to mobilise the worldwide neighborhood to demand an finish to the blockade, Cuba will as soon as once more current its conventional draft decision to the United Nations General Assembly on October 27 and 28, 2026, with the goal of calling for the top of “this inhumane policy”.
“Our people and our government hope to count on the valuable support of your country in defence of justice and the right of Cubans to live in peace.”
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