Jakarta, July 26.- The open letter, published in the New York Times, addressed to US President Joe Biden demanding the immediate lifting of the blockade against Cuba, was released by the Indonesian digital newspaper Republik Merdeka.
The article highlights that the letter, signed by more than 400 former presidents and political leaders, intellectuals, clergymen, artists and activists from around the world
was published on a full page in the influential New York Times, under the title "Let Cuba Live", as an initiative of the Martin Luther King Memorial Center and the organizations The People's Forum and Codepink to "change the immoral and myopic policy of the United States towards Cuba "and" provide much-needed medicine and medical supplies for the Cuban people. "
Stating some of the letter´s fragments, the article transcribed the following: “It is time to take a new path forward in relations between the United States and Cuba. We, the undersigned, make this urgent public appeal to you to reject the cruel policies implemented by the Trump White House that have created so much suffering among the Cuban people. "
Likewise, the Indonesian newspaper echoed the tightening of the blockade against Cuba during the pandemic carried out by the Government of Donald Trump, noting that it deliberately imposed 243 coercive measures to strangle Cuba, making life even more difficult for Cubans and Cubans. ignoring the Obama administration's efforts to improve relations with the island.
The article also mentions that the letter bears the signature of the former presidents of Brazil, Lula da Silva, and of Ecuador, Rafael Correa; the intellectuals Noam Chomsky, Frei Betto and Atilio Borón; the scientist Oliver Stone, the actors Danny Glover, Jane Fonda and Susan Sarandon, Emma Thompson, the Argentine Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Bishop Rubin Phillip of the Anglican Church of South Africa and the Reverend Dora Arce Valentín of the Church Presbyterian in Cuba.
The text ends by transcribing what is consigned in the letter where it refers to the statement made by the current US president, Joe Biden on July 12: "We support the Cuban people." If that's the case, we ask that you immediately sign an executive order and overturn Trump's 243 "enforcement action."
Embassy of Cuba in Indonesia.