Canciller cubano responsabiliza al Gobierno de EE. UU. de inaceptables acciones injerencistas
El Canciller cubano, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, se refiere durante su intervención a las más recientes declaraciones de la administración de Joe Biden

Nuria Barbosa León22 de julio de 2021 18:07:03
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El miembro del Buró Político del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba y ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, denunció este jueves la falsedad de los argumentos del Gobierno de Estados Unidos para sancionar a personas e instituciones cubanas y desenmascaró las pretensiones de manipular la opinión pública en contra de la Revolución Cubana.

En conferencia de prensa, el Canciller se refirió al comunicado del presidente Joseph Biden, mediante el cual informa de sanciones de su Gobierno para el ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba, el general de Cuerpo de Ejército Álvaro López Miera, y para la Brigada Especial Nacional del Ministerio del Interior, medidas unilaterales a las que calificó de irrelevantes en su sentido práctico, pero relevantes en su carácter político y de injerencia.

«El Presidente de los ee. uu. anuncia que continuarán las sanciones contra los responsables de lo que él llama represión contra el pueblo cubano, y que yo rechazo de manera categórica y absoluta. Aquí no ha habido un acto de represión contra el pueblo cubano, de la misma manera que no ha habido un estallido social, como ya he denunciado, a pesar de la persistente mendacidad de algunos medios bien establecidos de prensa internacional», expuso.

Cuestionó el cambio de opinión del mandatario estadounidense, quien ahora declaró que Cuba es una prioridad absoluta para su gobierno, contrario a lo dicho con anterioridad, pero que le suministra argumentos para mantener el injusto bloqueo y justifica acciones prácticas para imponer más sanciones.

Rodríguez Parrilla sentenció: «El Presidente de los ee. uu. y su Gobierno podrían ocuparse mejor del patrón racial diferenciado, de los errores judiciales, del racismo sistémico, de la represión brutal a la protesta social dentro de su territorio, de aquellas que se produjeron legítimamente con motivo al frío asesinato de ciudadanos afrodescendientes. Podría ocuparse también de la situación de sus más de 400 periodistas que sufrieron lesiones o violencia cuando cubrían las manifestaciones raciales».


Aseveró que la administración de la Casa Blanca carece de autoridad moral para pedir que se libere a personas detenidas en Cuba, lo cual es considerado un acto de injerencia e intervención: «Mienten cuando se refieren a manifestantes pacíficos, eluden reconocer que hubo actos violentos, evitan las denuncias que se han hecho por parte de nuestro Gobierno, primero de la persistente instigación al terrorismo, organizada desde territorio de los ee. uu.», y añadió que aún falta por refutar acusaciones que hizo personalmente días antes.

Defendió que las autoridades cubanas y, en particular las de orden interior, actuaron con estricto apego a la ley, con absoluto respeto a las normas que rigen su conducta, con el mínimo de fuerza frente a actos vandálicos y violentos que ocasionaron lesiones a oficiales de la Policía, a civiles y ciudadanos cubanos que proclamaron su apoyo a la Revolución y al Gobierno cubano.

«Actualmente, el país está en absoluta calma, los servicios funcionan con entera normalidad y convocó a la prensa a caminar por las calles del país y atestiguar, con objetividad, las condiciones de tranquilidad, pese a las condiciones adversas provocadas por el azote de la pandemia», dijo.

«Emplazo a cualquier autoridad del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos, que supuestamente se preocupa por los llamados manifestantes, o a las entidades de cualquier país, a que presenten un caso de un desaparecido. Me comprometo a, en pocas horas, desmentirlo con evidencias suficientes», enfatizó el Ministro, al referirse a las falsas listas de supuestos desaparecidos que circulan en medios de prensa y redes sociales.

Aludió a que en países de Sudamérica se han producido miles de asesinatos de defensores de derechos humanos, de activistas sociales, de líderes comunitarios, de personas que se sumaron a procesos de paz o casos terribles, de los cuales Washington ha sido muy tímido para referirse a ellos como el de los llamados falsos positivos, o los asesinatos de civiles, para presentarlos como beligerantes.

Hasta en Nueva York se denunció, en una pantalla lumínica, la política de asfixia de la administración de EE. UU. contra Cuba. Foto: Captura de pantalla de video que circula en redes sociales
«No es en Cuba donde se utilizaron medios de represión sofisticados, equipos mecánicos, sustancias químicas, explosivos aturdidores, lanzadores automáticos de bombas tóxicas». Subrayó que ello ocurre en Europa y en Estados Unidos, sin que la prensa hable mucho del tema.

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Biden Must Reprogram US Funds Assigned for Subversion in Cuba, Analysts Say
By Alejandra Garcia on March 3, 2021

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Of the never-ending list of U.S. measures against Cuba, much is said about the six-decade economic blockade. However, less attention is paid to the former U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to maintain the program that has allocated over $250 million in the last twenty years to covert subversion operations against the island.

On March 2, during a Zoom meeting called by Code Pink, the women-led organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, the Cuban attorney and political analyst Jose Pertierra focused on what he called, “one of the most disgusting components of the Helms-Burton Act: The Regime Change Section, also known by its euphemistic name of “Democracy Promoting Projects.”

Pertierra cited an article written by former National Intelligence Officer for Latin America Fulton Armstrong in which he described these ‘Cuba programs’ as those that were designed to identify, organize, train, and mobilize Cuban citizens to demand a political change in the island. “Those programs have an especially problematic heritage, including embezzlement, mismanagement, and systemic politicization,” the lawyer said, quoting Armstrong.

“The funds of about $20 million a year are used effectively and in a manner consistent with U.S. law. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) fought us at every turn, refusing to divulge even basic information about the programs, citing only a document of vague ‘program objectives.” Armstrong wrote.

According to Pertierra, those millions of dollars have created an industry of dissidents in both Miami and Havana.

Using the proceeds of the regime change programs, Miami-based dissidents have established themselves in cushy offices and earn inflated salaries. Their job is to instigate dissent in Cuba.

A tiny fraction of those millions make it to Cuba. What does that money buy? Pertierra said “it is used to pay people to march and protest. It creates amateur journalists who are on the payroll of US regime change projects. And it rewards those who, pretending to be artists or performers, use social media to express their dissatisfaction with the government. One so-called artist sat on a toilet with a Cuban flag draped across his shoulders, as he defecated on Facebook Live.” This individual is now a cause celebre on social media, Pertierra explained.

There is no accountability for the millions of dollars that are being spent on regime change programs because they are clandestine and covert.

“Some in Congress would have you believe the President has no discretion in how to spend those millions of dollars. However, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decides how to use those funds. It can reprogram them, for example, to stimulate the Central American economies and thus dissuade potential immigrants from coming to this country. The White House could also ease the economic crisis caused by the pandemic and Trump’s mishandling of the health emergency,” the lawyer said.

“How would struggling Americans, who are facing possible eviction from their homes because they have lost their jobs in the midst of this pandemic, feel when they find out that their government is spending more than $20 million a year to pay Miami Cubans a salary to be professional dissidents against the Cuban government?” asked Pertierra.

The U.S. hostility is no news

For almost a century, “the successive administrations have created a tremendous hardship for the Cuban people. Trump just made it worse,” recalled Code Pink leaders during the Zoom meeting, as they regretted that President Joe Biden has not done anything to change the course of the relations between the two countries.

“How can we put pressure on the administration to take action via executive order? Code Pink asked Congressman Jim McGovern.

“We have a lot of work to do,” recognized McGovern. “I’m frustrated because Biden could do a lot more than what he has already done. There are some decisions he could make that don’t need congressional approval. For example, re-opening up our embassy in Havana.”

McGovern has been traveling to Cuba for decades. “In all these years, I never saw so much activity, excitement, creativity, innovation, in the Cuban people than during the last two years, after then-Presidents Obama and Raul Castro normalized relations in 2017. That year, Obama did what we had wanted the U.S. to do a long time earlier,” he explained.

Many people took advantage of those changes building stronger partnerships, collaborating with small businesses and artists, joining researches and studies, strengthening local farmers, urging U.S. people to explore Cuba’s opportunities and beauty.

“The possibilities seemed endless -McGovern said- until Trump came along to show us that everything could be worse than it once was. We realized that all could be undone, that the U.S. could go back to Cold War ideology.”

When asked to comment on Pertierra´s argument that the $20 million a year in regime change funds for Cuban dissidents could be reprogrammed to attend to the needs of the American people, Congressman McGovern agreed that it was something that should be done.

The U.S. must turn the page, said the Congressman. Trump is no longer president, and those who want to re-establish relations with Cuba are writing a new chapter. Now, with a new administration, “we have another chance to create a better future for both of our countries,” he said.

This is possible, Jose Pertierra added. “We just need to answer the following questions: What danger does Cuba really pose to the U.S.? Has Cuba ever tried to storm the Capitol? Have they spread lies about a presidential election? Or encouraged American citizens not to wear masks in the middle of a pandemic that has killed over half a million U.S. citizens?”

Cuba poses no threat to the United States, and everyone knows it. Now they need to act on that knowledge.

Source: Resumen Latinoamericano – English

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Wyden Introduces Bill to End Cuba Embargo and Establish Normal Trade Relations

Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., last night introduced the U.S.-Cuba Trade Act of 2021 to repeal outdated sanctions on Cuba and establish normal trade relations with the island nation.

“Our nation’s embargo on Cuba is an artifact from the 1960s. To continue this outdated, harmful policy of isolation would be a failure of American leadership. While Trump increased tensions with Cuba during his disastrous time in office, I am optimistic about President Biden’s new diplomatic course,” Wyden said. “Regardless, Congress has a moral and economic obligation to the American people to improve U.S.-Cuban relations as swiftly and safely as possible.” 

The U.S.-Cuba Trade Act of 2021 would repeal the major statutes that codify sanctions against Cuba, including the Helms-Burton Act and the Cuban Democracy Act, as well as other provisions that affect trade, investment and travel with Cuba. It would also establish normal trade relations with the country.  

Joining Wyden on the bill were U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.

A copy of bill text is available here. 

Cuban patriots, wherever they live, know the blockade is criminal
President Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked the Cuban émigré community in the United States for organizing caravans to denounce the U.S. blockade

Granmafebruary 3, 2021 08:02:24

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President Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked the Cuban émigré community in the United States, who took the lead this Sunday, January 31, in a caravan to denounce the blockade imposed on our country.

On his Twitter account, the President emphasized that Cuban patriots, wherever they live, understand that the hostile U.S. policy is a crime against the people of the island, writing, “Cuba thanks its emigrant sons and daughters for the Bridges of Love caravan.”

On bicycles and cars, carrying flags and posters with messages condemning the blockade and promoting “Bridges of love” between the Caribbean nation and the United States, participants demanded an end to coercive measures against Cuba, and called for the unity emigrants to achieve these goals, Prensa Latina reported. Caravans were organized to take place on the date in the U.S. cities of Miami, New York, Los Angeles and Seattle.

On Saturday the 30th, member groups of the Alianza Martiana Coalition in Miami condemned subversive campaigns against the Cuban people and government, describing such activity as an old habit directed and financed by organizations with a long counterrevolutionary history in the United States.