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Related: About this forumUS Blockade Prevents Public Health Supplies From Reaching Cuba
February 18, 2020
Havana, February 17 (RHC) Cuba is currently forced to purchase medications in distant markets. It has to deal with the increase in import prices of medicines, medical instruments, disposable material, equipment, and spare parts.
Young engineer Solainy Fajardo Araujo, Director of Imports of the Import and Export Company of Medical Products of the Ministry of Public Health (MediCuba S.A.), knows the drill very well.
She told Juventud Rebelde that not only has the blockade against the island intensified during the government of President Donald Trump. Its extraterritorial nature has increased even more.
It is not enough for the U.S. government to apply the blockade directly against Cuba; it also sanctions or severely fines entities from other nations that carry out commercial operations with our country, for which we receive more and more refusals, not only from trading companies and factories but also from banks, shipping companies, and even airlines during the negotiation process, he said.
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US Blockade Prevents Public Health Supplies From Reaching Cuba (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Feb 2020
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Throck
(2,520 posts)1. Ship through Canada, been done for years.
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)3. The US companies are refusing to do that as well.
Throck
(2,520 posts)5. Should be looking for pirates and smugglers to do the job
Like buying beer when you're underage. A couple of extra steps, a third party buyer. If it's for the better good. Humanitarian piratism.
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)2. I find the embargo against Cuba inhumane and a crime against humanity.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)4. Agreed.
Thank you. drumpf is heartless, soulless and extremely cruel.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)6. Sick