In Lebanon, the national radio station "La Voz del Pueblo" broadcasts the denunciation of the intensification of the US blockade against Cuba.
Ambassador Jorge León Cruz denounced here today the intensification of the blockade and the hostile policy of the United States against the island.
In a message broadcast in Arabic by the national radio station La Voz del Pueblo, the diplomat emphasized that the Washington administration is using all possible means, including propaganda and instigating the media to provoke destabilization and chaos.
The following is the Cuban diplomat's message to the public in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and part of Iraq:
Every day the US policy against Cuba to reinforce the blockade and try to suffocate the Cuban people by hunger and desperation is more openly manifested.
To this end, it is using all possible means, including propaganda and instigating the media to provoke destabilization and chaos.
The U.S. regime takes advantage of the complex economic situation in Cuba, generated by the current limitations of the electric service in the country, by the fuel deficit, and other shortages of food, medicines, etc., as a result, fundamentally, of the relentless policy of economic asphyxiation of the U.S. Government against Cuba.
Once again, the U.S. regime allows and encourages some well-known Cuban terrorists, mainly based in Miami, to carry out actions against the internal order in Cuba from its territory.
This was demonstrated during the claims made by some Cuban citizens last Sunday, March 17, due to logical disagreements over power cuts and delays in the distribution of subsidized foodstuffs received by the population.
Cuban counterrevolutionaries and terrorists based in the U.S. and other parts of the world have been generating a media campaign through the artificial multiplication of hate messages and subversive content disseminated on social networks and anti-Cuban sites. They have tried to create a virtual reality in Cuba, to distort and manipulate the aforementioned claim by some groups of Cuban citizens.
Another evidence of the aggressive and hostile US policy against Cuba was the declaration of the US Embassy in Cuba, taking advantage of the above situation, to urge "the Cuban Government to respect the Human Rights of the demonstrators and to attend to the legitimate needs of the Cuban people".
Obviously, this arrogant and cynical attitude was immediately confronted. The Cuban Foreign Ministry summoned the head of the U.S. diplomatic mission, to whom it formally conveyed its firm rejection of the interfering behavior and the slanderous messages of the U.S. government and its embassy in Cuba regarding the internal affairs of the Cuban reality.
Also in the formal note of protest delivered to the Chargé d'Affaires a.i., Benjamin Ziff, the U.S. diplomat was reminded of the minimum standards of decency and honesty expected of a diplomatic mission in any country and which the U.S. embassy in Cuba is incapable of observing, while emphasizing that this diplomatic office and its personnel are obliged to behave in accordance with the norms of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
This attitude of the U.S. regime is further evidence of the cynicism and perversity of a government that tries to impose its will on those who, like Cuba, defend their sovereignty and independence and do not bow to the imperial designs of domination.
If the U.S. Government were concerned about human rights in Cuba and the needs of the Cuban people and if it had a minimal and honest concern about the welfare of the Cuban population, the U.S. Government would be the only one that would be concerned about the Cuban people:
- Why do they maintain the cruel and genocidal blockade against Cuba for more than 60 years, which is condemned and demanded to end every year in the United Nations General Assembly by almost the entire international community.
- Why does it keep Cuba on the arbitrary list of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism, which has direct extraterritorial implications in view of the threats of sanctions by the US regime against entities that carry out financial transactions with Cuba.
- Why it persecutes Cuba's financial transactions with the world and causes banks to suspend transfers to buy medicines, food or supplies needed by the Cuban people.
- Why it sanctions banks in the world that carry out financial transactions with Cuba, such as the last sanction to the Swiss private banking group EFG International AG, which imposed a fine of 3, 740, 442 usd for having processed 727 transactions with clients in Cuba, between 2014 and 2018.
- Why does it hinder and pursue the entry of ships with fuel to Cuba, if it knows very well that this causes power cuts that paralyzes the electricity supply to the population, paralyzes transportation and industries.
- Why does the U.S. apply an extraterritorial blockade when it sanctions companies in the world that trade with Cuba and does not allow them to sell products from their countries if they have a percentage of U.S. components.
- Why it prevented humanitarian aid from reaching Cuba during the COVID19 pandemic.
There are many other examples of the hostile policy of the U.S. government, but if the U.S. regime says it has nothing to do with the problems in Cuba, why does it maintain this economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba?
- Why does it maintain this economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba, which not only prevents trade between Cuba and the US, but also persecutes, threatens and sanctions any company in the world that dares to trade with Cuba?
- Why it applies this extraterritorial policy against entities in the world and tries to impose the extraterritoriality of its laws on other countries, in blatant violation of the norms of international law.
- Why does it not put an end to the gross persecution against Cuba's medical cooperation programs in the world.
- Why does it continue to intimidate businessmen, visitors, artists and anyone who feels they have the interest and the right to interact with the Cuban people?
- Why it prohibits U.S. citizens from visiting Cuba.
If the U.S. regime claims that the blockade is the Cuban government's excuse to justify the economic, commercial and financial problems in Cuba,
- Why then does it not eliminate the blockade and remove that excuse from Cuba.
- Why does it not remove Cuba from the list of countries that allegedly support terrorism.
The answer is very simple:
- The U.S. government does not want a Cuba that resists and does not bend to the designs of imperialist domination.
- The U.S. government does not want to consolidate the example of a Cuba that has resisted and faced the hostile policy, aggressiveness and economic, financial and commercial siege for more than 60 years, and in spite of everything, Cuba has been able to obtain the achievements and conquests of the Cuban Revolution with free health and education, with guarantees of employment, salary and social security, among other benefits for the Cuban people.
- The U.S. government does not want Cuba to continue building an increasingly just society, as part of its economic and social development strategy, aware that only in socialism and communism can human beings achieve their full dignity.
- The U.S. government knows that Cuba without a blockade can do much more for the Cuban people and can offer much more solidarity to other peoples of the world.
Cuba has always unmasked the subversive plans of the U.S. Government against Cuba, which are aimed at reinforcing a ruthless economic war to provoke and exploit the natural irritation of the population.
Every year tens of millions of dollars from the U.S. federal budget finance actions against Cuba.
The powerful U.S. technological infrastructure is used to exploit the digital networks from U.S. territory and for aggressive purposes against the Cuban people, for which they use the complicity of important U.S. and international mainstream media, and the mercenary support of people based mainly in South Florida, in the United States, whose only livelihood is the industry of aggression against Cuba.
The demonstrations that took place in Cuba were not repressed by the police authorities. We all know that if such demonstrations take place in the U.S. and other places in the world, they are surely brutally repressed by the police.
In Cuba those demonstrations were received by the authorities of the Party, the State and the Government, who in each place listened to and attended to the demands of our people, to whom the numerous steps being taken to improve the situation were explained, always in an atmosphere of citizen tranquility.
Today in Cuba we are facing a complex scenario due to the criminal tightening of the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the U.S. government.
It has been demonstrated that the isolated demonstrations that took place last week in Cuba, due to prolonged power cuts and food shortages, are the result of the tightening of the U.S. blockade that hinders and prevents the supply of oil to Cuba and takes measures against those who trade with our country.
It has become evident that these demonstrations were stimulated by the interferenceist policy of the United States in an attempt to provoke a social explosion and fragment the solid unity of the Cuban people.
The premise of the Government of Cuba will always be the attention and explanation to the people, in an atmosphere of peace and tranquility, in the face of the persistent attempts of counterrevolutionaries and terrorists abroad to destabilize the country.
The road will continue to be difficult, but Cuba fights, resists and lives; its people will win and will develop. We have never and will never give in to aggressions, blackmail and threats.