00:00On Wednesday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno RodrÃguez Parrilla presented the yearly report on the impact of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade.
00:10The report covers the period from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025.
00:17It demonstrates with numbers the areas affected by the U.S. coercive measures in sectors of social impact, such as economic development, health and education.
00:26The Cuban Foreign Minister added that in addition to the tangible negative effects, there is a psychological impact that is impossible to quantify.
00:36RodrÃguez also announced that on October 28 and 29, the United Nations General Assembly will once again vote on the draft resolution to end the U.S. blockade.
00:52What underlies this reality?
00:54Two months of blockade, 60 days of blockade, equal the cost of fuel to meet the normal electricity demand in this country.
01:09The damage from two months of blockade is equivalent to 1.6 billion U.S. dollars.
01:18If this blockade were to end for two months, we would have the resources to guarantee the fuel needed to produce electricity.
01:29Bruno RodrÃguez also stated that in the last 12 months, the U.S. strengthening of the economic blockade increased by 49 percent.
01:37The blockade has caused damages and losses estimated at over 7.5 billion U.S. dollars.
01:48This means that the damage caused by the blockade has increased by 49 percent compared to the previous period as a result of the additional measures to strengthen the blockade implemented over the last 12 months.
02:10The impact of the blockade compared to the previous year, increased by an additional 2.4 billion U.S. dollars.
02:19The Cuban Top Diplomats report showed in figures the economic impact of the U.S. blockade on the Caribbean Islands economy.
02:31More than 80 percent of Cubans were burned after the U.S. blockade, which is the main obstacle to the recovery of the country's economy.
02:39After more than six decades of blockade, the damages amounted to $170,677 billion.
02:48Between March 2024 and February 2025 alone, the damages were estimated at $7,556 billion.
02:57And due to the intensification of this policy, the impact on the 2024-2025 period was $2,499 billion, more than that of 2023-2024.
03:12The report concludes that if there hadn't been a blockade, Cuba's GDP in 2024 would have grown by around 9.2 percent.
03:22The report concludes that if there hadn't been a blockade, Cuba's GDP in 2024 would have been a blockade, Cuba's GDP in 2024 would have been a blockade, Cuba's GDP in 2024 would have been a blockade.
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