Pellicer stated that the blockade is an „is an act of genocide, it violates international law, the U.N. Charter and the rules of international trade.”

Even the right wing journal Forbes says that “the official position is outdated, hypocritical, and counterproductive.”

The Cuban embargo was inaugurated by a Kennedy administration executive order in 1960 as a response to the confiscation of American property in Cuba under the new Fidel Castro government.