Cuba will present again to the UN the traditional report that demands the need to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against our people. Yes, because sometimes words disguise the true semantics of the linguistic field of life. Because that first world-wide and powerful asphyxia that we denounce as a country every year in each tribune on any date, we suffer it as children, as parents, as grandparents, as neighbors, as acquaintances, as a people.

The Cuban National Health System provides comprehensive and multidisciplinary care to cancer patients in children and adolescents organized in specialized centers to provide the service regionally in Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Camagüey, Villa Clara, Pinar del Rio and four centers in Havana including the Institutes of Hematology and Oncology, with treatments that respond to standardized international protocols.

Cuban foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, highlighted today the role of biotechnology in the country, which guarantees health and saves lives despite the permanent choking of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States.

Cuba denounced today the negative impact of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States almost 60 years ago on the island's health programs.

In 28 consecutive times, since 1991, Cuba has stated before the international community our claim to end Washington’s hostile policy against Havana. The last time, this Thursday, evidenced that the international support has not stopped.

The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US government against Cuba for almost six decades is the most unjust, tough and long-lasting system of unilateral sanctions applied against any country, Cubaminrex website reported Monday.