Havana, Mar 28 (Prensa Latina) The signing of agreements to sell food from the US state of Nebraska to Cuba confirms Wednesday the increasing rejection of that country´s managerial sector of the economic, financial and trade blockade against the island.

Ruben Bonilla, commissioner of the Corpus Christi Port in Texas, praised the signing of two contracts between the Cuban Food Importing Company ALIMPORT and two US transnational companies as another step to abolish the blockade Washington imposed 45 years ago.

The signing completed another accord inked in 2006 by ALIMPORT director Pedro Alvarez and Nebraska State governor Dave Heineman, who traveled to Havana on Monday accompanied by 30 businesspeople from his demarcation.

Those contracts amounted to $60 million and, according to Alvarez, the island has purchased over $2.2 billion in grain, pork, beef and powdered milk from the United States since 2001.

The ALIMPORT director stated that, despite being efficient and prestigious companies, sales from the US arouse uncertainty in Cuba, due to actions by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the State Department.

Purchases by US agriculture products were over $560 million in 2006 and have reached $108 million this year, according to the executive.

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