[News] Obama’s Supervised Shame

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Obama’s Supervised Shame

by FIDEL CASTRO

Not because it was brutal or clumsy or 
anticipated was there any less indignation about 
the Yankee judge from the South Florida District 
denying René González, the Cuban anti-terrorist 
hero, the right to return to the heart of his 
family in Cuba after having served the unfair sentence imposed on him.

After a cruel and undeserved 13-year prison 
sentence, the United States government – that 
gave birth to monsters such as Posada Carriles 
and Orlando Bosch who, as CIA agents had a hand 
in the exploding of a Cuban airliner full of 
passengers in mid-flight – forces René to remain 
in that nation, where he shall be at the mercy of 
unpunished murderers for three long years, under 
a regime described as supervised 
“freedom”.  Still unfairly and vengefully 
imprisoned for long terms of confinement, are 
another three Cuban heroes, and another one 
sentenced to two life terms.  That is how the 
empire responds to the growing world clamour for the freedom of these men.

If that were not the case, then the empire would 
cease to be an empire; and Obama would cease to be a fool.

Of course the Cuban heroes shall not be there 
forever. On the foundations of the unequalled 
example of dignity and steadfastness, solidarity 
in the world and in the very heart of the 
American people shall grow, and it shall put an 
end to the stupid and unsustainable injustice.

The uncouth decision was made when the UN General 
Assembly was in the midst of developing a 
profound debate on the necessity of re-founding 
that institution.  Never have we heard such solid and energetic criticisms.

The Bolivarian leader Hugo Chávez opened it up 
with his first message to the General Assembly 
published on the evening of September 
21st.  Chávez’ second letter, transmitted in an 
energetic and vibrant tone by Chancellor Nicolás 
Maduro, was lapidary.  In that message, he also 
denounced the criminal imperialist blockade 
against our Homeland and the scandalous and cruel 
vengeance against the 5 Cuban anti-terrorist Heroes.

Such circumstances have forced me to write a 
third Reflection.  I shall transmit the essential 
ideas of that forceful message, using the very words of the author:

  “[
] We do not look for the peace of the 
cemetery, as said Kant ironically, but a peace 
based on the most zealous respect for 
international law. Unfortunately, the UN, through 
all its history, instead of adding and 
multiplying efforts in favor of peace among 
nations, ends up supporting, sometimes through 
its actions and other times by omission, the most ruthless injustices.”

“From 1945 on, wars have done nothing but 
inexorably increase and multiply themselves.”

“I want to call on the governments of the world 
to reflect: since September 11th, 2001, a new and 
unprecedented imperialist war began, a permanent war, in perpetuity.

“We have to look directly at the terrifying 
reality of the world we live in. [
] Why is the 
United States the only country that scatters the 
planet with military bases? What is it afraid of 
to allocate such a staggering budget for 
increasing its military power? Why has it 
unleashed so many wars, violating the sovereignty 
of other nations which have the same rights on 
their own fates? How can international law be 
enforced against its insensible aspiration to 
militarily hegemonizing the world in order to 
ensure energy sources to sustain their predatory 
and consumer model? Why does the UN do nothing to 
stop Washington? [
] the empire has awarded 
itself the role of judge of the world, without 
being granted this responsibility  [
] therefore, 
imperialist war threatens us all.

“Washington knows that a multi-polar world is 
already an irreversible reality. Its strategy 
consists of stopping, at any price, the sustained 
rise of a group of emerging countries [
] the 
goal is to reconfigure the world so it is based on Yankee military hegemony.”

“What is behind this new Armageddon?: the 
absolute power of the military-financial 
leadership which is destroying the world in order 
to accumulate ever more profits; the 
military-financial leadership which is 
subordinated, de facto, to an increasingly larger 
group of States. Keep in mind that war is 
capital’s modus operandi: the war that ruins the 
majority and makes richer, up to the unthinkable, a few people.

“Right now, there is a very serious threat to 
global peace: a new cycle of colonial wars, which 
started in Libya, with the sinister objective of 
refreshing the capitalist global system, within a 
structural crisis today, but without any limit to 
its consumerist and destructive voracity.”

“Humanity is on the brink of an unimaginable 
catastrophe: the world is marching inexorably 
toward the most devastating ecocide; global 
warming and its frightening consequences are 
announcing it, but their perspective on the 
ecosystem, which resembles the ideology of the 
conquistadors Cortés and Pizarro , as the 
influential French thinker Edgar Morin rightly 
pointed out [
] The energy and food crises are 
sharpening, but capitalism continues to trespass all the limits with impunity.

“
the great U.S. scientist Linus Pauling, awarded 
the Nobel Prize on two occasions, continues 
enlightening our path: “I believe that there is a 
greater power in the world than the evil power of 
military force, of nuclear bombs ­ there is the 
power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism. I 
believe in the power of the human spirit”. Let us 
mobilize all the power of the human spirit: it is 
time now. It is imperative that we unleash a 
great political counter-offensive in order to 
prevent the powers of darkness from finding 
justifications for going to war, from unleashing 
a widespread global war through which they 
attempt to save the western capital.”

“The warmongers, and especially the 
military-financial leadership that sponsors and leads them, must be defeated.

“Let’s build the balance of the universe foreseen 
by the Liberator, Simón Bolívar – the balance 
that, according to his words, cannot be found 
within war; the balance that is born out of peace.”

“
Venezuela, alongside the member countries of 
the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our 
America (ALBA), was actively advocating for a 
peaceful and negotiated solution to the Libyan 
conflict. That is also what the African Union 
did. However, in the end, the logic of war 
decreed by the UN Security Council and put into 
practice by NATO, the armed wing of the Yankee 
empire, was imposed. [
]  the “Libyan Case” was 
brought before the Security Council on the basis 
of an intense propaganda by the western mass 
media, who lied about the alleged bombing of 
innocent civilians by the Libyan Air Force, not 
to mention the grotesque media setting of the 
Green Square of Tripoli. This premeditated bunch 
of lies was used to justify irresponsible and 
hasty decisions by the Security Council, which 
paved the way for NATO’s military regime change policy in Libya.”

“
 What has the no-fly zone established by 
Security Council resolution 1973 become? How 
could NATO perform more than 20,000 missions 
against the Libyan people if there was a no-fly 
zone? After the Libyan Air Force was completely 
annihilated, the continued “humanitarian” bombing 
shows that the West, through NATO, intends to 
impose their interests in North Africa, turning 
Libya into a colonial protectorate.”

“What is the real reason for this military 
intervention?: Recolonizing Libya in order to 
capture its wealth. Everything else is related to this goal.

“
the Residence of the Venezuelan Ambassador in 
Tripoli was invaded and looted, and the UN kept 
it to itself, remaining ignominiously silent.”

“
Why is the Libyan seat in the UN granted to the 
“national transitional council,” while the 
admission of Palestine is blocked by ignoring, 
not only its lawful aspiration, but also the 
existing will of the majority of the General 
Assembly? Venezuela hereby ratifies its 
unconditional solidarity with the Palestinian 
people and its total support for the Palestinian 
national cause, which naturally includes the 
immediate admission of Palestine as a full member 
state within the United Nations.

“And the same imperialist pattern is being repeated regarding Syria.”

“It is intolerable that the powerful of this 
world intend to claim for themselves the right to 
order legitimate and sovereign governments rulers 
to step down. This was the case in Libya, and 
they want to do the same in Syria. Such are the 
existing asymmetries in the international setting 
and such are the abuses against the weakest nations.”

“If we direct our eyes to the Horn of Africa we 
will witness a heartbreaking example of the UN’s 
historical failure: most serious news agencies 
report that 20-29,000 children under the age of 5 
have died in the last three months.”

“What is needed to face this situation is $400 
million, not to solve the problem, but just to 
address the emergency that Somalia, Kenya, 
Djibouti and Ethiopia are going through. 
According to all sources, the next two months 
will be crucial to prevent more than 12 million 
people from dying, and the worst situation is that of Somalia.

“This reality could not be more atrocious, 
especially if, at the same time, we ask ourselves 
how much is being spent to destroy Libya. This is 
the answer of U.S. congressman Dennis Kucinich, 
who said: “This new War will cost us $500 million 
during its first week alone. Obviously, we do not 
have financial resources for that and we will end 
up cutting off other important domestic programs’ 
funding.” According to Kucinich himself, with the 
amount spent during the first three weeks in 
Northern Africa to massacre the Libyan people, 
much could have been done to help the entire 
region of the Horn of Africa, saving tens of thousands of lives.”

“
it is frankly regrettable that in the opening 
address of the 66th General Assembly of the UN, 
an immediate appeal to solve humanitarian crisis 
in the Horn of Africa was not made, while instead 
we were assured that “the time has come to act” on Syria.”

“We are also crying out for the end to the 
shameful and criminal blockade of our sister 
Republic of Cuba: a blockade that, for more than 
fifty years, is being exercised by the empire 
with cruelty and brutality, against the heroic peoples of José Martí.

“As of 2010, 19 UN General Assembly votes confirm 
the universal will demanding that the United 
States stop the economic and trade blockade 
against Cuba. Since all sensible international 
arguments have been exhausted, we have no choice 
but to believe that such cruel actions against 
the Cuban Revolution result from imperial 
arrogance in view of the dignity and courage 
shown by the unsubmissive Cuban people in their 
sovereign decision to determine their own fate and fight for their happiness.

“From Venezuela, we believe it is time to demand 
of the U.S. not only an immediate and 
unconditional end to the criminal blockade 
imposed against the Cuban people, but also the 
release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters 
held hostage in the prisons of the American 
Empire for the sole reason of seeking to prevent 
the illegal actions of terrorist groups against 
Cuba, under the shelter of the U.S. government.”

“For us, it is obvious that the UN is not 
improving, nor will it improve from the inside. 
If the Secretary General, along with the 
President of the International Criminal Court, 
take part in an act of war, as in the case of 
Libya, nothing can be expected from the current 
structure of this organization and there is no longer time for reform.”

“It is unbearable that there is a Security 
Council that turns its back, whenever it wants 
to, on the clamor of the majority of nations by 
deliberately failing to acknowledge the will of 
the General Assembly. If the Security Council is 
some sort of club with privileged members, what 
can the General Assembly do? Where is its room 
for maneuver, when Security Council members violate international law?

“Paraphrasing Bolívar when he spoke of nascent 
Yankee imperialism in 1818, we have had enough of 
the weak following the law while the strong 
commit abuses. It cannot be us, the peoples of 
the South, who respect international law while 
the North violates it, destroying and plundering us.

“If we do not make a commitment, once and for 
all, to rebuilding the United Nations, this 
organization will lose its remaining credibility. 
Its crisis of legitimacy will be accelerated 
until it finally implodes. In fact, that is what 
happened to its immediate predecessor: the League of Nations.”

“The future of a multi-polar world in peace lies 
with us.  In the articulation of the majority 
peoples on the planet to defend ourselves from 
the new colonialism and to attain balance in the 
universe that neutralizes imperialism and arrogance.

“This broad, generous, respectful call with no 
exclusions is addressed to all the peoples of the 
world, but especially to the emerging powers of 
The South that must take on with courage the role 
they are being called upon to play in the immediate future.

“From Latin America and the Caribbean, powerful 
and dynamic regional alliances have arisen, 
seeking to configure a democratic regional space, 
respectful of special characteristics and wishing 
to accentuate solidarity and complementariness, 
fostering what unites us and politically 
resolving whatever divides us.  And this new 
regionalism admits diversity and respects the 
rhythms of all. [
] the Bolivarian Alliance for 
the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) moves forward 
as an experiment of the vanguard of progressive 
and anti-imperialist governments, seeking 
formulas to break with the governing 
international order and strengthening the 
capacity of the peoples to collectively face the 
factual powers.  But this does not impede our 
members from making a decisive and enthusiastic 
thrust for the strengthening of the Union of 
South American Nations (UNASUR), a political bloc 
confederating the 12 sovereign states of South 
America with the aim of grouping them in what The 
Liberator Simón Bolívar called “a Nation of 
Republics”. And further along down the road, we 
the 33 countries of Latin America and the 
Caribbean are getting ready to take that historic 
step and found a great regional entity that will 
group us all together, with no exclusions, where 
we may jointly design the policies that must 
guarantee our well-being, our independence, our 
sovereignty, on the basis of equality, solidarity 
and complementariness.  Caracas, capital of the 
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is now swelling 
with pride to host the Summit of the Heads of 
State and Government next December 2nd and 3rd, 
an event that shall definitively found our 
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).”

With these profound ideas, thus concludes the 
second message of the Bolivarian President Hugo 
Chávez to the UN General Assembly.

According to the AFP dispatch dated today in 
Washington:  US President Barack Obama declared 
this Wednesday that while he is president he 
shall be willing to change the policy with Cuba, 
as long as significant political and social changes are produced.

What a nice man! How smart he is! So much virtue 
has not allowed him to understand yet that 50 
years of blockade and the crimes against our 
Homeland have not been able to bring our people 
to their knees.  Many things shall change in 
Cuba, but they shall change because of our 
efforts and despite the United States.  Perhaps 
that empire shall crumble first.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots 
is symbolized by our 5 Heroes.  They shall never 
back down!  They shall never surrender!  As Martí 
proclaimed, and I have mentioned on other 
occasions: “Before continuous efforts to free and 
prosperous country, will join the South Sea to 
the North Sea and a snake will hatch from an  eagle’s egg.”

It is obvious that the judge from the South 
Florida District has put the spotlight on “Obama’s supervised shame”.




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