Caracas - Venezuela and Cuba are strengthening cooperation links to face up to the economic, commercial and financial blockade the US administration has been hardening lately in an attempt to choke their development, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez asserted.

Rodriguez reported in Twitter she met in Caracas Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers Ricardo Cabrisas to assess mechanismS to stand to the unilateral sanctions Washington has been imposing and advance integrational projects.

She added that Washington's coercive measures 'is a show of political and financial pressure against developing nations that keep their people from fully enjoying human rights and damage all sectors without measuring the social consequences.'

Venezuelan and Cuban late presidents Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro signed on October 30, 2000, an Integration Agreement that set up as goals to provide free and quality medical care to all Venezuelans and turn the project into an example of unity for Latin America and the Caribbean.