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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Open Letter in US Newspaper Calls For Cuba Policy Change</h1>June 4, 2022<br><p>“Let Cuba Live!” expressed in the letter voters and interested
persons from the San Francisco Bay area addressed to the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, California Democrat Nancy Pelosi.</p>
<p>Among the signatories
are the distinguished professor emeritus and writer Angela Davis; San
Francisco Oversight Board Chairman Shamann Walton; Gayle McLaughlin,
former Mayor of the City of Richmond and Poet Laureate Togo
Eisen-Martin.</p>
<p>In the letter paid
for by the Bay Area Cuba Saving Lives Committee, they ask Pelosi,
who will seek reelection in the midterm elections next November, to
consider that it is time to forge a new path in relations between the
two countries.</p>
<p>“We urgently and
publicly appeal to you (Pelosi), a representative elected from San
Francisco so that, in your capacity as national leader, to urge Biden to
reverse the 243 coercive measures that the Trump administration
(2017-2021) added to the long-standing blockade imposed by the United
States", the letter read.</p>
<p>Another segment reminded the Speaker of the House that the Democratic
Party Platform of 2020 demanded the relaxation of that unilateral fence
on the island and the campaign of the then candidate revolved around
this issue. However, “the Biden administration has kept Trump’s policy
in force almost in its entirety, even during the epidemic that hit the
planet.”</p>
<p>The signatories note
they are encouraged by “the fact that on May 16, 2022, the
administration has taken three limited steps toward ending Trump’s
policies.” With a stroke of the pen –they insist-, Biden could right now
sign an executive order and reverse all the measures imposed by his
predecessor.</p>
<p>The letter emphasized
that in July 2020, following the call launched by the Campaign to Save
Lives, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors made that city the first
major city in the United States to unanimously pass a resolution in
favor of medical cooperation with Cuba. In addition, it demanded the
lifting of economic sanctions and the travel ban.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">In spite of the cruel <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/US?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#US</a>���� blockade, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cuba?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cuba</a>����
sends medical brigades to 22 countries
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& over 1200 doctors & nurses to help them fight <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19Pandemic?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19Pandemic</a>! The world needs international solidarity & cooperation, not sanctions, war or unilateralism! <a href="https://t.co/KP3nPQit2v">pic.twitter.com/KP3nPQit2v</a></p> — JuanM (@juanmglez2006)
<a href="https://twitter.com/juanmglez2006/status/1254435868254797825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2020</a>
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<p>Other similar resolutions were endorsed in Berkeley, Oakland,
Richmond, Santa Cruz and Sacramento, for a total of 48 national
jurisdictions.</p>
<p>The letter
signatories believed that the most recent decision by the White House to
exclude Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from the Summit of the Americas
to be held in Los Angeles from June 6 to 10 “is a step backwards that
must be reversed immediately.” At the same time, they urged the United
States to stop its attempts to provoke “regime change” in the largest of
the Antilles.</p>
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