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Peace Denounces
Biden Regime’s New
Sanctions on Cuba
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Cuban People</b></p>
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0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">Various
right-wing groups
across the Americas
are preparing
demonstrations in
support of the
one-year anniversary
of the exaggerated and
media-manipulated
protests that took
place in Cuba on 11
July 2021. In perfect
lockstep, the Biden
administration has
issued further
sanctions on Cuba—visa
restrictions on 28
Cuban officials whom
they have declined to
name. The Black
Alliance For Peace
(BAP) denounces these
efforts to smear the
Cuban process and
continues to stand in
revolutionary
solidarity with the
peoples of Cuba. </p>
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0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">“It
remains clear,” says
BAP South member,
Salifu Mack, “that the
enemies of African
people and the Cuban
Revolution will not
rest until total death
and destruction are
visited upon the
island, all in the
name of white
supremacy and U.S.
imperialism.”</p>
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0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">In
announcing the 28 new
sanctions on Cuba on 9
July 2022, U.S.
Secretary of State
Anthony Blinken is
quoted saying that the
sanctions have been
implemented to
"support greater
freedom and economic
opportunities for the
Cuban people." The
Biden administration
has declined to name
the 28 Cuban officials
that they claim these
sanctions have been
applied to. BAP
understands that
sanctions targeted
toward any person or
group of persons,
especially in a
country like Cuba,
which has struggled
under the weight of 60
years of a U.S.
economic blockade,
severely limits the
country’s ability to
advocate for itself on
the international
stage. <a
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U.S. economic
blockade </a>already
excludes Cuba from
international trade
and banking, punishes
countries which try to
circumvent it, and
overcomplicates
immigration from the
island. </p>
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style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:10px
0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">“We
have seen how
sanctions have been
used to attack efforts
toward
self-determination in
countries like Libya,
Zimbabwe, and
Eritrea,” says Austin
Cole of BAP
Haiti/Americas Team.
“And we have also seen
recently how sanctions
against Russia
backfire as the U.S.
and NATO attempt to
maintain hegemony in
Eastern Europe.”</p>
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0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">Of
the 28 new sanctions
being imposed upon
Cuba, Blinken remarked
that this measure is
aimed at those who, in
his opinion, allowed
or facilitated violent
and unjust arrests,
false trials and
prison sentences for
those involved in the
riots that took place
in July of last year.
As a continued
strategy, U.S.
imperialism is leaning
into the trope of
“critical support to
political prisoners.” </p>
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0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">Today
the United States
holds more than 2
million people within
its jail cells, the
equivalent of roughly
25% of the world’s
prison population.
Among that prison
population is an aging
demographic of
political prisoners,
like Mutulu Shakur,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Joseph Bowen, Veronza
Bowers, Kamau Sadiki,
Ruchell Magee, Leonard
Peltier, Ed
Poindexter, and Rev.
Joy Powell. While the
enemies of the Cuban
revolution attempt to
make heroes out of
Cuban citizens who now
face the consequences
of collaborating with
U.S. imperialism,
African freedom
fighters are rotting
away in prisons, being
denied life-saving
medical treatment, and
are only strategically
released on their
deathbeds. </p>
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style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:10px
0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">Additionally,
there is an extreme
irony in a country
that supports
reactionary riots
throughout the world,
yet regularly
brutalizes protestors
seeking justice within
its borders and is
helpless to stop its
epidemic of mass
shootings. As U.S.
hegemony continues to
weaken, meeting
formidable challenges
across Latin America
and the Caribbean, its
violence returns home
and compounds against
its domestic
colonies. </p>
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0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">The
week to come is
certain to be filled
with the same circular
and baseless attacks
using “anti-Blackness”
in Cuba as a tool to
turn Africans in the
U.S. away from support
of the Cuban
Revolution. BAP is
clear that anti-Black
racism, a development
of colonialism, will
only be eradicated
with the defeat of
colonialism. While
U.S. non-profits and
NGOs pour billions
every year into
toothless “diversity
and inclusion” and
“anti-racist”
marketing schemes, we
have faith in the
people of Cuba to lead
their own processes,
without U.S.
interference, in
establishing a world
where
People(s)-Centered
Human Rights—based on
materialist
reconfigurations of
land, healthcare and
education—are at the
forefront.</p>
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0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">When
Black people in the
U.S. repeat the same
positions and talking
points of the U.S.
government they are
not helping
Afro-Cubans in Cuba.
They are giving cover
to the regime change
agenda of U.S.
imperialism. </p>
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0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">The
Black Alliance for
Peace calls on all
serious
anti-imperialists in
the U.S. to continue
standing with the
Cuban Revolution. We
must be clear that
sanctions and other
forms of U.S.
interventions are an
affront to national
sovereignty and the
right to self
determination. It is
the duty of African
people living within
the belly of the beast
to remain vigilant
against opportunism
and co-optation.<br>
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Compromise! No
Retreat!</b></p>
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