By Patricio Montesinos
That one tries to surrender to a people due to hunger, diseases and deficiencies is not a form of terrorism? The economic, commercial and financial blockade that the United States has imposed on Cuba for almost 60 years has always pursued that purpose.
Successive administrations of the White House have maintained that cruel war against the Caribbean island, which is not cold by any means, and at the same time they have financed and promoted armed aggressions, sabotage with bombs, attacks on its leaders, and the introduction of ailments such as dengue hemorrhagic fever, among others.
Cuba has been the target of all this, in addition to the assassinations of its diplomats, and military attacks on its embassies. The most recent was perpetrated on April 30th against his legation in Washington.
At this point, the US authorities remain silent about this violent act with a firearm, protecting its perpetrator, as they have done throughout history with numerous mercenaries paid by the empire, including those responsible of the abominable crime of Barbados.
The United States has practiced all forms of terrorism in its frustrated attempt to destroy the Cuban Revolution, and the blockade has not ceased to be so, in addition to qualifying as an act of genocide.
The current and defeated tenant of the White House in the elections of November 3rd in the United States, has been the most aggressive president towards the largest of the Antilles.
Donald Trump has tightened the siege of Cuba to unprecedented limits, amid the deadly Covid-19 pandemic that plagues all of humanity today.
This terrorist action by Trump has included preventing the arrival of fuel to the oldest archipelago of the Caribbean, the cancellation of flights of different US companies, the purchase of food and medicine, and fines to banks and companies that do business with the island.
Likewise, it has applied restrictions on the sending of remittances from Cubans residing in the United States to their relatives in the Caribbean nation, among more than a hundred measures that also affect North American citizens.
Getting Cuba to drown once and for all has been Trump’s incurable obsession, who has been concerned more with it than with solving the serious problems that his country suffers, the most infected with the pandemic in the world by Covid-19.
But like his predecessors he could not defeat the largest of the Antilles, and he will have to leave the White House very soon, shamefully bankrupt.
Instead, Cuba has once again demonstrated its resistance and dignity, and despite being the target of all forms of terrorism practiced by Washington, it has been one of the nations with the greatest solidarity in the fight against the pandemic, sending health professionals to all the continents.
A recent report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), classified the island as one of the countries with the longest experience in scientific and medical diplomacy, based on an advanced biotechnology industry and a robust healthcare system.
In the aforementioned document, UNESCO recognized the international prestige and political capital earned by Cubans, and underlined that “since 1963 the Caribbean nation has sent more than 400,000 medical professionals in 164 missions to states of Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia, in addition to providing humanitarian aid in cases of catastrophes, emergencies and epidemics such as Ebola, and more recently COVID-19 ”.
Once again, the failure of Washington’s old aggressive stance towards Cuba has been demonstrated. Let us hope that the next occupant of the White House does not hit the same stone again, and its conduct is good neighborliness between two very close countries.
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