Home>News Center>World
         
 

Cubans seek to draw attention to embargo
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-10-24 11:02

Cuba's parliament speaker blasted America's four-decade embargo against the island nation as "genocide" on Saturday, as thousands gathered to draw attention to the upcoming U.N. vote to condemn the sanctions.

Ricardo Alarcon noted that 70 percent of Cuba's 11.2 million citizens were born after the United States imposed trade sanctions in the early 1960s in an effort to undermine Fidel Castro's government.

"It's a policy of genocide ... aimed at causing suffering and hunger," Alarcon said.

The rally was the first major political gathering in Cuba since the 78-year-old president tripped and fell after a graduation ceremony speech in the central city of Santa Clara Wednesday night.

Since then, Castro has assured the Cuban people he is well and remains firmly in control of the country he has ruled for 45 years.

Conspicuously absent from Saturday's rally was 73-year-old Defense Minister Raul Castro, the president's younger brother and his designated successor.

Among those in the audience was Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, who will travel to New York next week for the embargo vote scheduled for Oct. 28.

For 12 consecutive years, the United Nations General Assembly has voted to urge the United States to end the embargo.

Last year, the nonbinding resolution passed overwhelmingly with only Israel and the Marshall Islands joining the United States in voting against it.

Cuba has been under a U.S. trade embargo since Castro defeated the CIA-backed assault at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. Americans are barred from traveling to the Caribbean island nation except with a U.S. government waiver.



 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

BHP: China, India will sustain global economy

 

   
 

China to launch solar telescope in 2008

 

   
 

Iraq blasts kill 22; US troops ambushed

 

   
 

Bush and Kerry trade barbs over security

 

   
 

Rural dwellers get better medicare service

 

   
 

Deepening reform after coal mine accident

 

   
  Powell spurns N. Korea demand on talks
   
  Quakes hit Japan; 3 dead, over 300 injured
   
  Suicide car bomb kills 16 Iraq policemen
   
  Bush, Kerry turn campaigning into a zoo
   
  US forces bomb Falluja, seize Zarqawi aide
   
  Kyoto Protocol clears key hurdle in Russia
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 一二三四在线观看免费高清视频| 亚洲国产综合第一精品小说| 青娱乐精品视频| 国产精品情侣自拍| gogo高清全球大胆高清| 福利一区在线视频| 国产精品视频第一区二区三区| 三个馊子伦着玩小说冫夏妙晴| 欧美精品第欧美第12页| 全部免费毛片在线| 老阿姨哔哩哔哩b站肉片茄子芒果| 国产成人8X视频网站入口| a国产成人免费视频| 成人H动漫精品一区二区| 亚洲伊人成无码综合网| 精品卡一卡2卡三卡免费观看| 国产精品亚洲综合一区在线观看 | poren日本| 成人免费看www网址入口| 久久99精品国产99久久6男男| 日韩国产成人精品视频| 亚洲色欲色欲www| 第四色最新网站| 午夜福利试看120秒体验区| 免费看的黄网站| 韩国理论片久久电影网| 成年黄网站色大免费全看| 久久精品亚洲一区二区三区浴池| 激情偷乱在线观看视频播放| 免费黄色网址入口| 精品国产自在现线看| 国产小视频网站| 欧美欧洲性色老头老妇| 天堂а√在线中文在线| 一二三四在线播放免费视频中国 | 被女同桌调教成鞋袜奴脚奴| 国产在线精品一区二区不卡| 91在线丨亚洲| 探花视频在线看视频| 久久亚洲AV无码精品色午夜麻| 欧美激情一区二区|