Cubans living in the country demand that the US end the trade embargo.

 

Under the slogan "Cuba yes, Yankees no," about 50 people demonstrated in front of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico to demand that the Joe Biden administration end the economic, financial, and commercial blockade against the island.

Members of the José Martí Association of Cubans Residing in Mexico and the Mexican Movement of Solidarity with Cuba pointed out that policies against that nation intensified during Donald Trump's last year in office, causing severe impacts during the pandemic, "leaving losses of $5 billion."

The protesters marched from the Monument to the Revolution to condemn the "criminal" blockade. They emphasized that despite the strategy against it, five candidate vaccines against Covid-19 are being developed in Cuba, two already ready to immunize its inhabitants. Therefore, they also called for participation in the campaign to send syringes.

"We call on the Biden administration to review the state of relations between the United States and Cuba, a promise made during his election campaign, and to encourage increased ties between the two nations," they stated in a statement read outside the embassy.

The blockade was decreed on February 3, 1962, in Executive Order 3,447, signed by then-President John F. Kennedy.

They demanded that the Biden administration repeal the 242 measures adopted by his predecessor, "as they have caused suffering, shortages, and deprivation for the Cuban people, which is not only criminal but inhumane due to the pandemic."