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Blockade of Cuba

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, before the UN General Assembly

Cuba demanded at the UN the political will to achieve the future to which we aspire

In his speech at the Summit of the Future, the Cuban Foreign Minister reviewed the challenges faced by developing nations and the need for truly profound reforms to eliminate them

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

september 23, 2024 08:09:33

Photo: TAKEN FROM THE CUBAN CHANCELLOR’S X-ACCOUNT 

Greater political will to address the structural and moral failures of the international system that prevent progress towards a just future demanded the member of the Political Bureau of the Party and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, before the UN General Assembly.
In his speech at the Summit of the Future, the Cuban Foreign Minister reviewed the challenges facing developing nations and the need for truly profound reforms to eliminate them, Prensa Latina reported.
“The peoples need less interference and more solidarity; less unequal exchange and more equity; less politicization and double standards and more dialogue, cooperation and respect for their inalienable right to choose their political, economic, social and cultural system,” he said.
Rodríguez Parrilla reiterated that, for Cuba, the main obstacle to well-being and development is the criminal blockade of the United States and its infamous inclusion in the arbitrary and unilateral list of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
In his words, he stressed that “our futuristic debates are taking place while the genocide in Palestine continues, without an effective response from the international community, when even the institutions and workers of the United Nations are being targeted by Israel’s fire.”
He added that, for millions of people in the global South, the possibility of a dignified future is and will remain a utopia.
“It will be difficult to believe in that promised future as long as developed countries oppose deep reform of the international financial architecture, discussions of which should be centered at the United Nations,” he said.
If these claims have been watered down in the Pact for the Future, should we believe in the promises of greater access to the resources indispensable for our development? How can we trust in the promise of peace, non-interference and multilateralism while coercion, selfishness, domination and hegemonism grow and the UN Charter and international law are violated?, the senior diplomat questioned.
As part of his agenda in New York, the Cuban Foreign Minister also participated, last Saturday, in the 5th Meeting of Cubans living in the United States.
He thanked the work of a large group of Cuban nationals who maintain their public actions in support of the elimination of the blockade and the definitive withdrawal of Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, policies that have a direct impact on the quality of life and the purchasing power of families. He also recognized the work of associations and Cubans living in that nation for their humanitarian projects.

Blockade of Cuba

A murderous policy against the people of Cuba

The blockade is a worldwide embarrassment for the United States

The Trading with the Enemy Act is the cushion of this murderous policy against the people of Cuba

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

september 23, 2024 08:09:27

Sorry, there is no game. This has American rubber. 

VIt is not news that the U.S. Government has extended, for one more year, the validity of the law that establishes the basis of the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba. It would be news if it did not, because that is already on the agenda of the president-elect, regardless of the winning party. There is only one political base against the largest of the Antilles: the imperial one.
Last week, Joe Biden played the same role as his predecessors, in a ridiculous and archaic scene, in the middle of the 21st century, by keeping alive the Trading with the Enemy Act, passed by the Federal Congress on October 6, 1917. This gives the head of the White House the power to restrict trade with countries “hostile” to the United States, and the possibility of applying economic sanctions in time of war or any other period of national emergency, and prohibits trade with the enemy or allies of the enemy during armed conflicts.
It is under the protection of this legislative text, the oldest of its kind, that the regulations for the Control of Cuban Assets were put into practice in 1963, after the blockade against Cuba was imposed in 1962 by then President John F. Kennedy. He acted under the umbrella of that regulation.
The Trading with the Enemy Act is the cushion of that murderous policy against the people of Cuba, which aims at killing through hunger, unrest and chaos. This regulation is supposed to be applied when Washington considers a nation a national security problem, and so far it has not issued any document against Cuba in this regard, or when there is a war conflict, which does not exist, because the bombs are dropped far away, in the Middle East, but never near its walls.
However, the Caribbean island is the only country to which the U.S. government applies the old legislation. Previously, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Vietnam were also subject to it.
That text is part of the legal framework of the blockade, which includes others such as the Foreign Assistance Act (1961), the Export Administration Act (1979), the Torricelli Act (1992), the Helms-Burton Act (1996) and the Export Administration Regulations (1979).
According to the report presented by the Cuban Foreign Ministry, between March 1, 2023 and February 29, 2024, such a monstrosity caused Cuba damages and material losses estimated in the order of 5,056.8 million dollars, which represents an approximate loss of more than 575,683 dollars for each hour of the blockade.
The governments of the United States have filled themselves with laws against a small country that has made it undergo the worldwide embarrassment of not surrendering to its feet. This was stated on the social network X, by the member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who expressed that, “despite the serious damage caused, they continue to fail in the objective of destroying the Revolution.”

Blockade of Cuba

Cuba was put on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism “WHY”

 

A List that Does not Match the Truth

By Juana Carrasco Martín on January 22, 2024

protest at the White House calling to take Cuba off the List. photo: Bill Hackwell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The United States is rife with paradoxes and this is one of them. On January 11, 2021, a few days away from ceasing to be president of the powerful nation -reluctantly and not without trying with his fanatics to reverse the electoral process won by Joseph Biden-, Donald Trump took a low blow and put the name of Cuba in a counterfactual list of countries sponsoring terrorism (SSOT). The incongruity lies not only in the fact that it is without a grain of truth, it is that in fact Cuba and the United States have in place a bilateral cooperation agreement on counterterrorism.

But the unprecedented thing was that Biden put the poisoned cherry on the cake when he kept the our island in that register of falsehoods, contributing his own imprint to the unilateral and tendentious register, whose purpose is to cause the greatest possible damage and burden to the daily life of Cubans, with the pretense that the people rebel against the Revolution, an infernal machination that began as early as July 1960 when then President Dwight Eisenhower imposed the first economic measures against Cuba, suspending the sugar quota and thus depriving us of 89 percent of the income from that sector, practically the country’s only industry.

Eisenhower’s decision did not stop there. In October 1960, he prohibited all exports to Cuba, with the exception of raw foodstuffs and medicines, thus closing the doors to the island’s main market.

On April 6, 1960, the Memorandum of Lester Mallory, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, cynically and overbearingly laid out what U.S. policy toward Cuba was all about in a report entitled “The Decline and Fall of Castro”:

“Most Cubans support Castro […]. There is no effective political opposition. […]. The only possible means to alienate this internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. […]. All possible and imaginable means must be used quickly to weaken economic life in Cuba […] denying financing and supplies to Cuba, decreasing real and monetary wages, in order to sow hunger, desperation and to bring about the overthrow of the Government”.

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