Caracas, Venezuela.- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro rejected Thursday the policy of economic blockade imposed by the United States government against Cuba on the occasion of the 57th anniversary of the implementation of this coercive policy.

The Venezuelan leader claimed the right of ‘the worthy people of the world’ to be free and independent,trough a message in Twitter, remembering that Washington maintains a siege against Venezuela.

’57 years of the criminal and immoral blockade against the sister Republic of Cuba, on the part of the American empire, the same that besieges our Motherland’, the Head of State wrote on the digital media.

On February 7, 1962, the then US President, John F. Kennedy, through Section 620a of the Foreign Assistance Act of September 1961, declared the total blockade against Cuba.

The antecedents of this law go back to the year 1959 when the US government began to apply blockade policies against Cuba, aimed essentially at undermining vital points of the Cuban defense and economy.

Washington is currently pushing similar measures against Venezuela, with the aim of overthrowing the Bolivarian Revolution and the democratically elected president, Nicolas Maduro.

In March 2015, the then US President Barack Obama declared a scenario of ‘national emergency’ due to the ‘extraordinary risk’ that Venezuela represented for US security.

This provision gave way to the application of other coercive measures such as the blocking of bank accounts, the seizure of Venezuelan assets abroad and sanctions against the oil industry, the heart of the Venezuelan economy.

Along with the economic aggression, the Donald Trump administration intensified the interventionist actions by promoting a coup in Venezuela through the recognition of a parallel government, together with repeated threats of military intervention.