Lula and Ortega Condemn US Blockade of Cuba

[Cuba Solidarity]

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 communiqué 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.