T&T blanks CELAC initiative for end to US blockade of Cuba

Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Trinidad and To­ba­go has dis­as­so­ci­at­ed it­self from calls urg­ing an end to the US block­ade of Cu­ba and to up­hold the re­gion’s Zone of Peace pol­i­cy, which were made in the Bo­go­ta De­c­la­ra­tion at the re­cent 10th Sum­mit of heads of state and Gov­ern­ments of the Com­mu­ni­ty of Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean States (CELAC).

At the sum­mit, Bar­ba­dos High Com­mis­sion­er to T&T, David Comis­siong, al­so called for CELAC to hold fast to its col­lec­tive de­nun­ci­a­tion of the Unit­ed States’ “il­lic­it uni­lat­er­al block­ade of CELAC mem­ber Cu­ba as a gross vi­o­la­tion” of the re­gion’s in­ter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised des­ig­na­tion as a Zone of Peace—and that CELA must al­so de­nounce ex­tra-ju­di­cial killings of re­gion­al cit­i­zens.