{"id":26697,"date":"2015-01-29T11:13:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T09:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=26697"},"modified":"2015-01-29T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T09:13:59","slug":"cuba-urges-us-to-end-economic-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=26697","title":{"rendered":"Cuba urges US to end economic blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio de Belen, Costa Rica, Cuban leader\u00a0Raul Castro has called on the US to end the\u00a0economic embargo against the country as relations\u00a0between the two nations undergo a historic thaw.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Castro and US President Barack Obama\u00a0announced that Havana and Washington would begin<br \/>\nto rebuild long-severed diplomatic ties by\u00a0reopening embassies in each other&#8217;s countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main problem has not been resolved: the\u00a0economic, commercial and financial blockade, which\u00a0causes huge human and economic damage and is a\u00a0violation of international rights,&#8221; Castro said\u00a0during the opening ceremony of the Community of\u00a0Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit\u00a0in San Antonio de Belen in Costa Rica on<br \/>\nWednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that Obama uses his executive powers\u00a0to extend measures similar to those the US\u00a0announced for the telecom industry to the rest of\u00a0Cuba&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Barry Temmo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio de Belen, Costa Rica, Cuban leader\u00a0Raul Castro has called on the US to end the\u00a0economic embargo against the country as relations\u00a0between the two nations undergo a historic thaw. Last month, Castro and US President Barack Obama\u00a0announced that Havana and Washington would begin to rebuild long-severed diplomatic ties by\u00a0reopening embassies in each other&#8217;s countries. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,100,110,25,106],"tags":[987],"class_list":["post-26697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-news","category-america","category-political-news","category-syria-and-the-world","tag-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}