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An “unjust” economic blockade of Cuba by US imperialism has cost the country’s economy an estimated $130 billion in six decades, according to the United Nations.
UN spokeswoman Alicia Barcena told a meeting of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Havana that the country is “testing its own ways to face the brutal human costs that it has sustained during an unjust blockade.”
“We evaluate it every year as an economic commission and we know that this blockade costs the Cuban people more than $130 billion at current prices and has left an indelible mark on its economic structure,” she said.
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