{"id":17852,"date":"2026-10-23T09:35:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=17852"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:39:59","slug":"parliamentary-public-hearing-against-the-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/parliamentary-public-hearing-against-the-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Public Hearing against the Blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17853 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0-22-audiencia-publica-contrabloqueo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0-22-audiencia-publica-contrabloqueo2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0-22-audiencia-publica-contrabloqueo2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Guantanamo0.- With the presence of Esteban Lazo Hern\u00e1ndez, member of the Party\u2019s Political Bureau and President of the National Assembly of People\u2019s Power and the Council of State, a parliamentary public hearing titled \u201cCuba Is Not a Threat; the Blockade Is\u201d was held on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The venue chosen was the National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology (INOR)\u2014a place where the fight for life takes place every day, despite the difficult conditions imposed by the blockade.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the National Assembly, along with students, workers, and healthcare professionals, filled the auditorium. There, the harm inflicted upon the Cuban people by the coercive measures applied by the United States government was denounced, supported by compelling figures and concrete examples.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Josefina Prosper, an INOR staff member, noted that 100,000 people are currently on surgical waiting lists\u2014including 12,000 children\u2014emphasizing that behind these figures are suffering patients and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Carlos Antonio Leiva, a chemical engineer, stated that the pharmaceutical industry is severely impacted, as it cannot manufacture medicines due to a lack of raw materials. He remarked that, in some instances, \u201cfinancial fear\u201d travels faster than solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Ledys Mar\u00eda Labrador explained that while Cuba maintains a comprehensive national formulary of medicines, 100 of the 395 essential drugs are currently unavailable, as manufacturing facilities await the necessary resources to produce them.<\/p>\n<p>Another deputy, Yaser Toledo Garnache\u2014who also serves as president of the Hermanos Sa\u00edz Association\u2014stated that artists and writers, who face the same hardships as the rest of the population, also struggle to create the art that the people need; furthermore, due to energy shortages, they are often forced to shut down performance venues.<\/p>\n<p>Present were Teresa Amarelle Bou\u00e9, member of the Party\u2019s Political Bureau and Secretary-General of the FMC, as well as members of the Party\u2019s Central Committee: Ana Mar\u00eda Mari Machado, Vice President of the National Assembly and the Council of State, and Yanet Hern\u00e1ndez P\u00e9rez, Governor of Havana.<\/p>\n<p>IMAGE CREDIT: Margarita Barrios | Photo: LUIS JIM\u00c9NEZ<\/p>\n<p>[ SOURCE: AGENCIA CUBANA DE NOTICIAS ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guantanamo0.- With the presence of Esteban Lazo Hern\u00e1ndez, member of the Party\u2019s Political Bureau and President of the National Assembly of People\u2019s Power and the Council of State, a parliamentary public hearing titled \u201cCuba Is Not a Threat; the Blockade Is\u201d was held on Thursday. The venue chosen was the National Institute of Oncology and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17854,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions\/17854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}