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DEFEND CUBA Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

January 14, 2011 the United States Government announced new measures on Cuba. Although we have to wait for the publication of regulations to understand its true meaning, according to preliminary information released by the Press Office of the White House, the measures consist of:

• authorize travel Americans to Cuba for academic, educational, cultural and religious.
  
• Allow Americans to send remittances to Cuban citizens in limited quantities.
  
• Authorizing U.S. international airports
  to request permission to operate direct charter flights to Cuba under certain conditions
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The adoption of these measures is the result of efforts by large sectors of American society that for years have claimed mainly the lifting of the genocidal blockade against Cuba and the elimination of the absurd ban on travel to our country.


expression is also recognition of the failure of U.S. policy against Cuba and that looking for new ways to achieve its historical goals of domination of our people.
Although the measures are positive, they remain well below those just demands, have a very limited scope and not change the policy against Cuba.

The White House announcement is limited in essence, to restore some of the provisions that were in force in the nineties under the Clinton administration, and were eliminated by George W. Bush since 2003.

measures benefit only certain categories of Americans and do not restore the right to travel to Cuba of all American citizens, who will remain unique in the world who can not visit our country freely.

These measurements confirm that there is no political will to change the lock and destabilization against Cuba. At the show, officials of the United States Government made it clear that the embargo will remain intact and they intend to use new measures to strengthen the instruments of subversion and interference in the internal affairs of Cuba. This confirms the allegations contained in the Foreign Ministry statement on 13 January.

always Cuba has promoted exchanges with the American people, universities, academic institutions, scientific and religious. All obstacles to visits by Americans to Cuba have always been, and still today, the next U.S. government.

If there is a real interest in expanding and facilitating contacts between our peoples, the U.S. should lift the blockade and to remove the ban makes Cuba the only country that Americans can not travel.

Havana, January 16, 2011