United States Confirms Hostile and Isolationist Policy Against Cuba

Since 2010, Washington has seized over $493 million from Cuba, a figure that was confirmed by a statement from the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, an organization that arbitrarily categorizes Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism.”

The United States government seized over $493 million from Cuba over the past two years as a part of the isolationist policy and economic blockade that Washington has been imposing against the Caribbean nation for half a century, according to reports. The figure was confirmed in a communication from the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, an organization that arbitrarily categorizes Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism.”

For this same reason, Washington had already frozen $223.7 million of Cuban assets in 2009. The document also suggested that American authorities are blockading six properties in New York and Washington that belong to the Cuban government.

For 50 years, the United States has been maintaining an economic, commercial and financial siege against Cuba, which has cost this country over $975 billion, while also constituting a violation of the United Nations Charter and of international law regulations.

Based upon the past 20 years of UN votes, the international community has condemned the American power’s interventionist and extraterritorial policy against the small West Indies nation.

Expert sociologists, political analysts and academics from different countries met last December in Washington for an international conference to discuss removing Cuba from a controversial list of state sponsors of terrorism. The United States placed the Caribbean island on the list in 1982 at the request of then Secretary of State Alexander Haig in a resolution that was endorsed by President Ronald Reagan.

The Latin American Working Group and the Center for International Policy sponsored the seminar, which was attended by Wayne Smith, a former U.S. diplomat to Cuba, and Robert Muse, from the law firm Muse and Associates, as well as other academics.

The conference of experts points out that one of the most cynical aspects of U.S. policy has been keeping Cuba in the ignoble category of a “state sponsor of terrorism” without the slightest bit of evidence to support the accusation. Recent reports issued by the Department of State recognize that Cuba maintained a public stance against terrorism and terrorist financing.”

Two weeks ago, influential U.S. Brig. Gen. John Adams also called for the United States to take Cuba off the list of state sponsors of terrorism and put an end to its counterproductive policy against Cuba.

“Cuban presence on the list damages U.S. credibility with almost all of our key allies and puts us at odds with every country in Latin America, who view the listing as capricious and politically motivated,” the soldier said.

Retired from active duty since 2007, but with great influence in the upper echelons of the Pentagon, Adam has over 35 years of experience in military missions. The former Washington representative in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization added that the hostile politics of the White House hurt the interests of American workers and businesses by justifying a commercial embargo against Cuba that prevents the creation of new jobs.