US Blockade Hard on Cuban People
Cuba terms sensitive the damages caused by the US blockade on sectors with larger social impact, in the report recently presented to the UN on this issue.

On November 8, the UN General Assembly will debate that document and it is expected that the international community condemn, for 15th consecutive year, the almost 50 years of US harassment.

The United States, always isolated in that topic, is indifferent to the reiterated accords from that plenary session, and has even announced new measures to tighten the blockade.

The Cuban report recalls that food, health, education, sports and transportation are some of the most affected areas, all with direct effects on people s quality of life.

For example, affectations in the food industry amount to over $62.9 million, a figure that could allow for technological reconditioning and partial modernization of the country s dairy industry.

The same is true for the denial to allow the island necessary purchases in the United States of machinery, incubation plants and other goods destined to the poultry production program.

Stocking and refrigerated storage are also greatly affected.

The document also states that, damages to the health sector in 2006 came in at $48.6 million, visible in treatment of patients who need dialysis, radiotherapy, AIDS treatment and other areas.

The losses in pesticides and fumigation equipment have been devastating.

Finally, the country has lost about $9.8 million in the purchase of teaching aids for schools and lacks books and school supplies valuing $4.4 million.