Cuba's Popular Provincial Tribunal of Havana has sentenced the US government to payment of 181.1 billion dollars for the human suffering caused by the 40-year embargo imposed by Washington against Cuba.

The sentence was delivered Tuesday in a case presented by social organizations and the Cuban population against the US government.

"We declare due to the present intervening suit," says the sentence, which is transcribed in full in the official diary "Granma" Wednesday.

The verdict requests the US government to publicly retract the moral suffering caused to the families and victims of the presented cases, supported by the testimony of the witnesses in the trial, and additionally to documents presented throughout the case.

On May 31, eight social organizations and a group of people presented a suit for human suffering against the US government.

The tribunal, made up of two university professors and lawyers, upheld the claim for the death of 3,478 people and the illicit bankruptcy of the physical integrity of a further 2,099 people.

The Cubans accused the US government of committing criminal acts against the island, over a 40-year period, including terrorism and organized crimes.

Also included in the case are aggressions carried out from the US base in Guantanamo, a North American enclave on the island, and bacteriological warfare, with particular emphasis on an epidemic of hemorrhagic dengue fever, which caused the deaths of 158 people, of which 101 were children.

This was a civil trial, with neither district attorney nor accused, only a suit, and in this case the US government is considered as a person.

This is the first time this kind of case has been carried out against a foreign government, on the basis of Cuban legislation, before the islands courts. Throughout the trial 200 people gave testimony.