[News] The World Stands with Cuba Once Again!

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The World Stands with Cuba Once Again!
By Alejandra Garcia on November 3, 2022 in Havana

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San Francisco celebrates in the street the vote in the UN for Cuba. photo:
Bill Hackwell

Once again, the United States has been left alone in its efforts to stifle
Cuba. The General Assembly of the United Nations once again pronounced
itself overwhelmingly against the economic blockade that Washington insists
on maintaining against the island.

The UN member countries voted this Thursday on the Cuban resolution
“Necessity of putting an end to the economic, commercial and financial
blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”. On this
occasion, the document had 185 votes in favor, two against (the United
States and its unconditional ally Israel), and two abstentions (Jair
Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Ukraine).

Today, the world is with Cuba, and it is no surprise. That US policy it’s
an outdated and ineffective measure that hasn’t achieved and will not
achieve its objective and has ended up discrediting and isolating the
United States itself.

It has already been 30 years of continuous defeats. Since 1992, the
Caribbean island, besieged and on the verge of economic asphyxiation, has
been presenting this resolution before the UN in New York. Today, not even
the US citizens themselves support this policy of hatred. Proof of this is
that two nights ago, in the mythical Chrysler skyscraper in the Big Apple,
a luminous sign caught the attention of the city dwellers and the world:
“Down with the Blockade,” next to an image of the Cuban flag.

At the top of the building, the messages “Sanctions are a violation of
human rights,” “Biden, vote for peace and justice” were also read; images
that have been on the front page of major international media in the last
hours, prior to the vote. New York, the American people, and the world want
peace, but the White House doesn’t want to listen to these demands. It is
stuck in the past and without an ounce of courage Biden has followed in the
footsteps of previous administrations, Republican and Democrat alike, who
adhere to the single notion of crushing Cuba and the example it projects to
the world.

During its first opportunity to pronounce itself, in 2021, the
administration of Joseph Biden voted against the resolution and today, it
rejected once again the document, which shows, among other painful facts,
that during the first 14 months of the Biden administration, the damage to
the Cuban economy is estimated at $6.35 billion, equivalent to more than
$15 million per day.

Cuban authorities have repeatedly denounced that the blockade has not only
been in place for more than six decades but that it has intensified in
recent years. Besides, the unilateral and fraudulent designation of Cuba as
a state sponsor of terrorism reinforces the impact of that policy of
economic asphyxiation.

Fidel’s words expressed 13 years ago came to life to me today: “The
cynicism of U.S. policy hurts. It speaks of democracy while it includes
Cuba on the list of terrorist countries, applies the murderous Cuban
Adjustment Act exclusively to our nation, and blocks it economically.”

According to Cuban journalist Elson Concepción, being blockaded continues
to be the price paid by those of us who declare ourselves free and
sovereign, a condition conquered during years of struggle against Spanish
colonialism, first, and U.S. neocolonialism, later.

“The blockade causes Cuban children to suffer the lack of some medicine,
the implant of an organ, or the use of a reagent, for the ridiculous reason
of having only 10% of U.S. components,” he added.

During his election campaign, Biden promised to change the U.S. policy path
toward Cuba, but this has not happened. Meanwhile, Cuban families suffer
when their children decide to emigrate in an unsafe way; they suffer from
the lack of indispensable goods, such as food and medicine. They also
suffer because they want their country to grow economically. After all,
there’s no better place to live than where you were born and raised.

For the thirtieth time, the world said “No” to the blockade and is
anxiously waiting for this to be the year of definitive changes. The U.S.
would be a better place for it, a fairer one.

Source: Resumen Latinoamericano – US
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