Statements
Canadian Network on Cuba
The Canadian Network on Cuba condemns the attack on the Cuban Embassy in Washington that took place under the cover of night on Sunday, September 24, 2023. This attack is clearly a response by reactionary forces frustrated by the recent successes of the Cuban government in building international solidarity against the twin evils of colonialism and imperialism.
The attack comes directly on the heels of the visit of Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly. The Cuban President was greeted in the United States enthusiastically by adoring crowds, who see the Cuban leader as a representative of the righteous struggle against a unipolar world. The visit to New York included a stop at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Center in Harlem, powerfully invoking the spirit of Fidel's visit to Hotel Theresa in 1960 and reaffirming the natural solidarity between those oppressed by their own imperialist governments at home and those who suffer by the same governments abroad. Diaz-Canel's speech at the UNGA pointed out the hypocrisy of so-called developed states in their suppression of the peoples of Asia, Afria and Latin America and reiterated the articles of the Havana declaration, released by participating nations of the G77 plus China the week prior. The G77 plus China meetings took place in the Cuban capital over September 15th and at 16th, representing 80% of the world's population. These meetings were another example of the central role that Cuba is playing in paving a new path forward for the planet and its peoples.
This is the second terrorist attack on the Cuban embassy in recent years. The exterior walls of the embassy still show the bullet holes of a terrorist attack perpetrated in 2020. We cannot forget that these attacks are made possible by the safe haven offered to far-right terrorists in the United States by the U.S. government. Terrorism against Cuba has been financed and sponsored by the U.S. government agencies since the sixties to punish Cuba for its quest for self-determination. Successive U.S. governments have carried out inhumane and illegal actions against the heroic people of Cuba with the express goal of causing misery and discontent in the Cuban families.
We demand that Cuba be excluded from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, a political manipulation of the U.S. government to inflict more harm on the Cuban people.
It is essential that the U.S. take the occasion to admit the commission of both terrorist acts in their nation's capital and bring the terrorists to justice.
Samantha Hislop
Julio Fonseca
Co-Chairs, Canadian Network on Cuba
(September 25, 2023)
This article was published in
Volume 53 Number 10 - October, 2023
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/Articles/MS53105.HTM
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