We the graduates of Cuba constituted mostly by doctors, health sector professionals and other professions such as engineering, economics, the military, education and others, hereby condemn the injustice, inhumane and evil economic blockade against the peaceful Republic of Cuba which has been rejected by the international community represented by the United Nation as from 1992. Our South African Parliament in August 2014 passed a resolution calling upon the then USA President to lift the blockade immediately and engage Cuba more positively.
Even after Donald Trump left the White House with President Joe Biden being the incumbent we are still faced with this vote in favour or not in the United Nations. Surely this must come to an end and it is high time that the USA President and its Congress must put an end to all these UN annual votes that are absolutely unfair to the government of Cuba and its People.
This blockade which violates the international law is a transgression of the right to peace and to the development and security of a sovereign state. It is an act of unilateral aggression and a permanent threat to Cuba’s national stability and by so doing a violation of the sovereignty of many other nations by its extraterritorial nature.
It is of cause very brutal and evil for the USA government in the middle of a pandemic of Covid-19 to subject Cuba to these totally evil economic restrictions. This economic blockade kills too like a virus of Covid-19.
Surprisingly Cuba with all these economic sanctions have managed to develop five vaccines with two highly advanced Abdala and Soberana02. The Abdala vaccine has 92.28% effectiveness against the covid-19 virus. This is surely even to antagonists of Cuba a great achievement indeed to Cubans as a Nation and the World population.
We further declare that we will maintain together with other progressive formations or structures in our country like the Friends of Cuban Society (FOCUS) awareness to our government the need to isolate the USA and its supporter Israel with regards to the evil blockade and mobilise international solidarity in favour of the People’s Republic of Cuba.
We will always unapologetically remind the South Africans and the international community what our first democratic President of South Africa said while visiting Cuba in 1991 on the 26th of July with the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolution, President Fidel Castro being next to him that Cuba unselfishly contributed a lot towards our liberation in South Africa, the independence of Namibia and also the establishment of sovereignty and stability in Angola with no economic interest at all but allegiance to the blood relationship due to slavery that we ALL dearly cherish as the African continent.
If this humble, humane and internationalist nation carried back to its country from the Battles of Solidarity in Africa like The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola as our President Nelson Mandela said, it was only the dead bodies of its sons which amounted to more than two thousand only in Angola with no gold or diamond.
Lastly we would like to thank Cuba once more for the education that it offered us including students from many other countries and different continents. We are also thankful of the assistance that Cuba offered to send many doctors to come to our country South Africa under the Henry Reeve Medical Brigade a prestigious brigade that helped rich countries like Italy a G7 member and many middle economy countries and poor ones.
Cuba has sent health professionals to the West of Africa during the ebola outbreak and sent them too to Brazil and Latin American countries during the zika virus outbreak. These are some of the humanity medical projects that Cuba highly contributed including the Pakistan and Haiti earthquakes.
This spirit of Revolutionary internationalism and solidaritywith others also saw other professionals in many other fields such as hydraulic engineers being sent to assist in water reticulation in South Africa, military specialists, academics in education and many other fields including in the cultural sphere parting knowledge to our people and at times educating educators.
Hence lastly we declare that we will always support the Cuban Revolution and always mobilise our nation and other nations of our beautiful continent and the world to be opposed to this USA inhuman, irrational and diabolic blockade against a peaceful nation of Cuba. Cuba is our second HOMELAND and nobody can remove the LOVE we have towards Cuba as former students thereof.
Viva! The Spirit of Comrade Fidel Castro Viva!
Viva! The Spirit of Comrade Nelson Mandela Viva!
Amandla!!!Ngawethu
Patria o Muerte, Venceremos!