[NYTr] Lula and Ortega Condemn US Blockade of Cuba
 
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:53:06 -0500 (CDT)


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Lula and Ortega Condemn US Blockade of Cuba

Havana, August 9 (acn) The presidents of Brazil and Nicaragua, Luiz 
Inacio Lula da Silva and Daniel Ortega, respectively, urged the US 
government on Wednesday to lift the commercial, financial and economic 
blockade imposed on the Cuban people for almost five decades.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, the petition was included in a 
joint communiquC) released by both leaders at the end of an official 
visit of the Brazilian president to Managua, the Nicaraguan capital.

According to the text, read by Ortega in a public rally held at the 
Poli-technical University in Managua, both heads of state expressed 
their concern for the continuous implementation of measures that aim at 
stiffening and expanding the blockade against the island.

 
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