Buenos Aires, argentina.- Argentina”s Nobel Peace Prize, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, asserted that while the U.S. continues the economic, commercial and financial blockade on Cuba, all peoples are under attack.

The activist and defender of human rights, issued a communique stressing that the problema was not only between two countries to become a problem for all countries of the world with the United States because it attacks, he said, our right to self-determination.

In December, 2015, president Barack Obama called on Congress to lift the blockade as a way to help the Cuban people. But the blockade is still in place, pointed the Nobel Prize.

Perez Esquivel added that besides demanding Congress to eliminate sanctions against Cuba, Obama must take all measures possible to modify substantially what is happening today.

Despite the reiterated calls of the U.S. President to put an end to the blockade and the measures taken to this day by the White House, which are positive but insufficient, financial persecution of Cuban operations abroad and the extraterritorial reach of the blockade are still in force, he recalled.

‘Fear persists among the U.S. banking sector and of third countries, to develop relations with Cuba, even when the U.S. has authorized the use of the U.S. dollar in international financial transactions of the Island, measure that still has not come true’.

The Nobel Prize award referred the position of media such as The New York Times and Bloomberg, together with the civil society which according to surveys, the lifting of that policy has a support near to 70 percent of those interviewed.

For the 24th consecutive year, the U.N. General Assembly will vote tomorrow a draft resolution on the need to lift the U.S. blockade. In 2015, the text obtained 191 of the 193 votes possible, with the opposition of the United States and its ally, Israel.

Spain: Prominent Figures Call on Obama to End Blockade on Cuba

Prominent political, social and cultural figures in Spain and elsewhere have called on U.S. President, Barack Obama, to totally lift the U.S. blockade that has been imposed on Cuba for more than 50 years.

Names such as Spaniard, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former Director-General of UNESCO; and the Argentine, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, a Nobel Peace Prizewinner (1980), are among the signatories of a letter sent to Obama demanding the end of the genocidal policy.

The letter to the U.S. president is part of a campaign called ‘For a 2016 without the Blockade on Cuba’, Lois Perez, coordinator of the initiative, reported today in a news release.

‘Mr. President, we ask you, as a Nobel Peace Prizewinner, that you, in 2016, lift the inhumane blockade on the Republic of Cuba,’ the text says.

In the letter, the signatories urge the president to end the blockade against the island, with the aim of making the entire American continent a land of peace, brotherhood and free from wars, as Bolivar, Washington and Jose Marti dreamed.’

‘Obama’s visit to Cuba and his talks with President Raul Castro, encourage us to think that this old dream, of the Cuban people and its government, as well as across the continent and the whole of humanity, could be a wish come true,’ they added.

After expressing satisfaction for the restoration of the diplomatic relations between the two countries, they encourage Obama to take the necessary and decisive steps to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the Republic of Cuba.

Some few hours before the United Nations General Assembly rules, for the 25th consecutive year, against the unilateral sanctions, the letter reminds the U.S. president of the 2015 vote, when 191 of 193 countries demanded the elimination of the hostile policy.

In addition to the mentioned figures, singer and actress Pepa Flores, singer-songwriters Luis Eduardo Aute and Luis Pastor, poet Luis Garcia Montero, writer and playwright Alfonso Sastre, actor Hector Alterio and novelist Belen Gopegui, signed the letter to Obama.

Others such as United Left leader, Alberto Garzón; General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain, Jose Luis Centella and Deputy Secretary of International Relations and Podemos, Paul Bustinduy also signed.

In parallel with this campaign, several regional parliaments in Spain rallied unanimously against the blockade, including Galicia, the Basque Country, the Canary Islands and Andalusia, as well as 30 municipalities, councils, county councils and town councils.