Kingston, Jamaica, 28 March 2021.- The Jamaica Movement in Solidarity with Cuba joined the International Caravan that demands the end of the unjust economic, financial and commercial blockade of the United States against Cuba.
Mr. Trevor Brown, president of the Association, issued the following message on behalf of all Jamaicans in solidarity with the island.
In Support of the International Caravan against criminal blockade of Cuba
The Jamaica movement in solidarity with Cuba, extends its unwavering support to the International Caravan against the criminal US blockade being held over the 2-day period of Saturday 27- Sunday 28 March, 2020, as a very important iniative to focus attention on the bare –faced and arrogant repudiation of international law which the blockade represents.
Additionally, we see the retention of this 6-decades –old anachronistic practice, as a systematic violation and flagrant abuse of the of the Human Rights of the Cuban people and an act of Genocide under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
This criminal blockade along with its extra- territorial application of the Helms Burton and Torricelli Acts, constitutes the single and primary obstacle to the development of the economy of Cuba, especially during a difficult period where they have to stand up against a pandemic and an unprecedented offensive of dis information and mis information campaign by the empire that included over 200 illegal sanctions. All designed to asphyxiate the courageous people of our sister country, for standing up in defence of their sovereignty and inalienable right to their particular path of economic and social development.
We join with all well thinking all able-bodied peoples of this world, who subscribe to the struggle for a better world, in denouncing this practise by the US government which belongs to the dust-bin of history by demanding the unconditionally lifting of the blockade against a country that reflects in both words and deeds ‘the brotherhood of man.’
A luta continua
Trevor G Brown
President