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The US blockade against Cuba in figures. 2025 Report

https://cubaminrex.cu/es/informe-de-cuba-sobre-la-resolucion-797-de-la-asamblea-general-de-las-naciones-unidas

Link -> https://cubaminrex.cu/sites/default/files/2025-09/InformeB2025i_1.pdf

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The US blockade against Cuba in figures

Introduction

  1. Persistence and tightening of the blockade policy

1.1 Effective implementation of the blockade laws.

1.2 Impact of Cuba's inclusion in the US State Department unilateral List of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism.

  1. The blockade violates the rights of the Cuban people

2.1 Impacts on highly sensitive sectors.

2.2 Impacts on economic development, trade, and finances

2.3 Impacts on the emerging sectors of the Cuban economy

  1. The blockade is a violation of International Law. Extraterritorial implementation of the blockade.

  2. Universal rejection of the blockade.

Conclusions

  • Annex 1: US blockade laws and regulations
  • Annex 2: Blockade measures adopted by the US government between March, 2024 and February, 2025.
  • Annex 3: Prerogatives of the US President to modify the implementation of the blockade against Cuba.
  • Annex 4: Some examples of the extraterritorial implementation of the blockade against Cuba between March, 2024 and February, 2025.
  • Annex 5: Actions denouncing the blockade against Cuba between March, 2024 and May, 2025.
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These are just a couple of figures:

  • The cost of 4 months of blockade is equivalent to the financing required to purchase the buses needed by the public transportation system in the country (USD 2,850,000,000).
  • The cost of 2 months of blockade is equivalent to the cost of the fuel needed to meet the country's regular power demand (USD 1,600,000,000).
  • The cost of 2 months of blockade is equivalent to the financing needed to guarantee the delivery of the rationed family food basket to the population during one year (around USD 1,600,000,000).
  • The cost of 16 days of blockade is equivalent to the financing required to meet the needs of the country's National List of Essential Medicines (around USD 339,000,000).
  • The cost of 14 days of blockade is equivalent to the financing required to increase the share of renewable energy sources in the country's energy matrix from 24 per cent to 26 per cent (around USD 300,000,000).
  • The cost of 12 days of blockade is equivalent to the annual financing required for the maintenance of the National Power Generation System (around USD 250,000,000, excluding fuel and investments costs).
  • The cost of 6 days of blockade is equivalent to the financing required to import medical consumables (cotton, gauze, syringes, needles, sutures, catheters, IV equipment, among others) and the reagents needed by the national health system during one year (around USD 129,000,000).
  • The cost of 2 days of blockade is equivalent to the cost of annual maintenance required by public transportation in the country (USD 40,000,000).
  • The cost of 21 hours of blockade is equivalent to the financing required to replace deteriorated and obsolete technological resources in the country's educational institutions (USD 18,133,050).
  • The cost of 14 hours of blockade is equivalent to the cost of purchasing the insulin needed to meet the country's demand during one year (USD 12,000,000).
  • The cost of 5 hours of blockade is equivalent to the cost of purchasing toys and teaching aids needed in all daycare centers of the country (around USD 4,500,000).
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  • The cost of 2 hours of blockade is equivalent to the purchase cost of medications used for the treatment of psychiatric, neurological, and heart conditions, as well as food for children with genetic deficiencies and endocrine metabolic diseases (around USD 1,400,000).
  • The cost of 19 minutes of blockade is equivalent to the cost of the electric and conventional wheelchairs required to meet the needs of the country's special education system (USD 280,506).
  • The cost of 17 minutes of blockade is equivalent to the purchase cost of the medication Nusinersen for the annual treatment of infantile spinal atrophy (USD 250,000).
  • The cost of 10 minutes of blockade is equivalent to the financing needed to cover the demand of hearing aids for children and teenagers with disabilities who are enrolled in the country’s special education system (USD 142,966.82).
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