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BiggerDominican Trade Union calls on government to support ending U.S. blockade of Cuba
Santo Domingo.- The Unión Clasista de Trabajadores (Classist Union of Workers) urged President Luis Abinader to reaffirm the Dominican Republic’s support for ending the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba, in place since 1962 and in violation of the United Nations Charter.
Juan Núñez, Secretary General of the union, emphasized that the blockade has caused serious harm to the Cuban population for over six decades, limiting access to medicines, food, medical equipment, raw materials, machinery, and international trade, while obstructing sustainable development.
The union reaffirmed its solidarity with Cuban workers, citizens, and government in their struggle to end the blockade and called on the Dominican government to maintain its support in line with the Constitution and the UN Charter.
The blockade will not end as long as Trump is in power. The Cuban people need relief.
The Cuban government can have the blockade lifted within months if they were to allow the country to have free and fair elections, allow Cuban to travel abroad without restrictions and stop putting people in jail for protesting and also return to all of the American companies all of their companies seized by the Castro Regime 60 years ago. We don’t blockage in the Dominican Republic because we are a free country.
DR is a “Free Country,” but in reality DR makes decisions that benefits the US interests and not the people’s. They have to run things by Washington before they do anything. And the US doesn’t like any country that resists American influences. That’s why there’s tensions with countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, and Nicaragua. At the end of the day, the USA wants the be able to put their companies and policies that benefits America first before the host country.