Speaking before the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) in the WTO, Cuban counsellor Nancy Madrigal mentioned the maintenance of Section 211 of the (US) Omnibus Law of Budgetary Assignments of 1998. Madrigal said that Section 211 attacks the rights of Cuban brands, and one of its purposes is to facilitate the Bacardi firm the fraudulent and illegal sale of a rum which is not produced in Cuba, under the name of Havana Club.

In another part of her intervention Madrigal said that the recently concluded World Radio Communication Conference ratified the illegality of anti-Cuban radio and television transmissions by US authorities, by means of the use of airplanes. She said that Cuba will not stop defending all its sovereignty attributes and will keep on demanding that US government fulfil its judicial obligations, as a WTO member, and as a member of the international community.