They say that the Greek aggressions against Troy were among the longest known in human history, and that Homer´s attempt to immortalize in its Iliad, lasted ten years.

However, the blockade imposed by the imperial power against our country dates back to 1961 when the US broke diplomatic relations with Cuba.

According to economists, Washington´s blockade has inflicted losses to the island of over 700 billion dollars, figure based in the depreciation of the US currency as opposed to gold.

It has cut off over 15 years of the island´s sustainable development depriving the country from resources and inflicting difficulties of all kinds in order to achieve its economic and social goals.

Resources, which if used and managed efficiently would have meant a lot for the country where almost 70 percent of its citizens have lived with economic difficulties.

That is why the international community has turned the US blockade into a constant issue and condemned by the UN General Assembly year after year.

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa recently ratified during his presence in the MERCOSUR Summit held in Paraguay that the cruel US blockade against the Cuban people is an insult to international law.

During a press conference to the regional press, Correa said that: “As an economist one can see the hypocrisy when alleged analysts talk about the failure of the Cuban model, a government that has resisted over half a century of a blockade imposed by the main world market”.

That is how the hypocrites analyze the Cuban situation, said the Ecuadorean Statesman, because it would be like a victim not being able to save himself from drowning in the bottom of the ocean after having its hands tied up and a rock placed on its feet.

Meanwhile, the African Union, in its 17th summit held earlier this month in Equatorial Guinea reiterated its condemnation of the US blockade against Cuba.

The declaration proposed by Namibia with the support of an important number of African governments urged Washington to lift the long and unjust blockade against Cuba which, says the document, deprives its people to the legitimate right to develop without foreign pressure.)