RODRIGO ARANGUA/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Cuban President Raul Castro spoke at a meeting of the Community of Latin American & Caribbean States in Costa Rica on Wednesday.
Castro warned that normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States will not be possible while the U.S. blockade on Cuba remains in effect. Calling the blockade a violation of international law, Castro said that it causes large-scale damage to Cuba and must be ended.
The Cuban president said in his speech that President Obama could use his executive powers to modify the blockade without the approval of Congress.
Earlier this week, Raul’s brother and former Cuban President Fidel Castro wrote a letter to communist newspaper Granma saying that he did not trust U.S. politics, and that while he supported his brother’s actions in approaching the U.S. for a warming of the relations between the two nations, he had not spoken a word to U.S. officials.
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