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US Blockade Costs Cuba US$833 Billion in Five Decades

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The blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States has impacted the country's economy to the tune of US$833.7 billion in five decades, the Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez announced in a press conference Wednesday.

The figure differs to a U.N estimate of US$117 billion between 1960 and 2014.

"A claim by the international community to lift the blockade is indispensable," said Rodriguez.

The Cuban Foreign Minister announced that the country would once again present a resolution before the General Assembly of the United Nations, calling on the United States to lift its blockade on the Caribbean country.

In last year's vote, the U.N. generally assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of ending the blockade with 188 countries voting in favor of the resolution and only the United States and Israel voting against it.


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