Cuba Is Not Intimidated by Measures Adopted to Reinforce the Blockade
- Revolutionary Government
of
Cuba -
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba
repudiates, in the strongest terms, measures announced by the
United States government on June 4, 2019, reinforcing the
economic blockade imposed on Cuba for more than 60 years, at a
cost to the Cuban economy that in 2018 exceeded 134 billion
dollars at current prices, or 933 billion dollars, when
considering the depreciation of the dollar as compared to the
value of gold on the international market. As is known, this new
escalation, effective June 5, further strengthens the stringent
restrictions U.S. citizens face in order to travel to Cuba, and
adds full prohibitions on travel by sea from the United States,
of all types, and prohibits cruise ship stops in our country
immediately. The objective continues to be pressuring the Cuban
nation to make political concessions, by strangling the economy
and causing damage at the population's level. In this particular
case, the measures also seek to prevent the people of the United
States from learning about Cuba's reality, and thus undermining
the slanderous propaganda campaigns against our country that are
fabricated on a daily basis.
These actions are contrary to the majority opinion of
U.S.
citizens, whose interest in seeing Cuba, and exercising their
right to travel, is made clear by the 650,000 who visited us in
2018, along with half a million Cubans resident in the United
States.
This past April 17, National Security Adviser John
Bolton, on
the occasion of an anti-Cuban show that featured the presence of
mercenaries defeated at Playa Girón and relatives of the
Fulgencio Batista dictatorship's henchmen, announced that his
government would restrict non-family trips to Cuba. It is clear
that this individual has managed to take possession of U.S.
foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere, which constitutes the
main threat to peace and stability in the entire region. The
United States promotes the Monroe Doctrine without reservation,
with which it seeks to deny sovereign equality and the right to
self-determination of each and every one of the hemisphere's
nations.
The recent attacks on Cuba are justified with new
pretexts.
The most notorious among them is the slanderous accusation that
Cuba is intervening militarily in Venezuela, a lie that has been
publicly and consistently refuted by the Cuban government.
They go to the unscrupulous extreme of proposing that
Cuba
betray the convictions and principles that guide the Cuban
Revolution's foreign policy, in exchange for promises of
negotiations or easing of the draconian and criminal measures
that make up the blockade.
Cuba's solidarity with constitutional President
Nicolás Maduro
Moros, the Bolivarian Chavista Revolution, and the civic-military
union of its people is not negotiable. The more than 20,000 Cuban
collaborators, who in a voluntary and disinterested manner offer
their social services in the country, the majority in health
care, will continue to do so, as long as the Venezuelan people
want, cooperating with this sister country.
For Cubans, betrayal is not an option. We are not naive:
we
have already struggled 150 years for our independence, obliged to
confront the hegemonic ambitions of U.S. imperialism since the
first day. Cuba will not be intimidated, nor distracted from the
essential, urgent tasks of developing our economy and the
construction of socialism. Closely united, we will be able to
face the most challenging adversities. They cannot asphyxiate us,
nor can they stop us.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 21 - June 8, 2019
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