The text states that this measure deepens the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the island, “with serious and foreseeable humanitarian consequences” by affecting essential services for the Cuban population.

It criticizes the executive order signed by President Donald Trump on January 29, which characterizes Cuba as an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the security of the United States and accuses Havana of supporting “transnational terrorist groups.”

This “lacks credibility and appears to be designed to justify the use of extraordinary and coercive powers” ​​against Cuba, the document states, which bears the signatures of all 16 Broad Front senators.

They maintain that the extraterritorial effects of that US executive order affect the sovereignty of other states, violate the principles of sovereign equality, non-intervention, and self-determination of peoples, as well as freedom of trade and navigation—essential pillars of an equitable international order.

The Frente Amplio (FA) caucus reiterates the UN’s call for an end to the blockade against Cuba, which they consider contrary to international law and a source of serious harm to the well-being of Cubans.

We reiterate our rejection of the unilateral lists and certifications that affect countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and therefore request the exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of countries that allegedly sponsor international terrorism, they emphasize.

Senator Daniel Caggiani published the motion for a declaration on his Twitter account and stated that it will be presented to the Senate’s International Affairs Committee.

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