The U.S. blockade against Cuba has been a policy dedicated to suffocating a country, a people, even in the most difficult times.
For more than 60 years, this hostile policy has been the cause of great monetary losses and irreparable damage to the well-being of the men and women of Cuba.
More than 240 measures, 55 of them in times of pandemic were taken during Trump’s term to further aggravate the Cuban economic situation and create instability in the country.
The reality, perhaps hackneyed by our media and used excessively to justify our own clumsiness, continues to cause damage to several generations of Cubans by hindering the development of the nation.
The blockade is real, it exists and seeks to control Cuba’s economic, financial and commercial activities at all costs. It hinders imports, exports, access to financing and products that are essential for the well-being of Cubans.
However, this Machiavellian punishment could not be defended disinterestedly nor could it be justified out of love.
Because one cannot close one’s eyes and heart, walk around in deaf mode, or “pretend to be a Swede” and disconnect oneself from all the news and history. Or be a political illiterate, an advocate of annexationism or an ingrate to blame socialism for all evils, and not the blockade.
According to my journalistic considerations, it is inconceivable to undertake a collective punishment against an entire people, preventing its social economic development, preventing the saving of a life, hindering the training of a high performance athlete or the exchange of scientific information, hindering a free general education and denying a drug or technology for the needy, and even hindering the arrival of fuel and food to the island.
In the face of this crude reality, let us denounce with more force than ever this unilateral and coercive policy, this permanent pandemic, this constant hurricane, let us denounce this hostility with attachment to the recognized universal humanism, in respect for the human rights of Cubans and in accordance with the norms that regulate international relations.
