Digital media today reproduce an open letter addressed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress, Nancy Pelosi, in which they ask to forge a new path in relations with Cuba.
The constituents of the powerful Nancy Pelosi have made their will known: Let Cuba Live!", highlighted Diario Latinoamericano in publishing the letter, signed among others by activist, writer and professor Angela Davis and Shamann Walton, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Originally published in the San Francisco Examiner newspaper, the text was sent to the California Democrat, who is running for re-election in the November 8 elections as a concern of voters and people in the San Francisco Bay Area who want a change in Cuba policy.
It also urgently called on Pelosi to use her powers, given her status as a national leader, to urge President Joe Biden to reverse the 243 coercive measures that her predecessor, Donald Trump (2017-2021), added to the long-standing blockade imposed by the United States on the West Indian nation.
The missive likewise denounced that Biden maintains Trump's policy almost in its entirety, even during the Covid-19 pandemic that ravaged the world.
It recalled that Trump blocked Cuba's access to financial institutions in the midst of the health emergency, which made it extremely difficult and costly for that country to import food and medicines or acquire the necessary materials to manufacture its own medicines, including vaccines.
At the same time the signatories stated that they are encouraged that on May 16, 2022, the Democratic Administration took three limited steps to end the GOP's policies.
"With the stroke of a pen, President Biden could sign an executive order right now and reverse all the measures imposed by Trump," they expressed.
In addition, they described Biden's decision to exclude Cuba, along with Venezuela and Nicaragua, from the Summit of the Americas held last June in Los Angeles as a step backward.
At the same time, they asked Pelosi to oppose Washington's actions to finance actions aimed at the so-called regime change in Cuba.
The letter recalled that in recent weeks people living in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the United States donated six million syringes to support Covid-19 vaccination on the island, which achieved vaccines developed by its own biotech industry.
"We urge you to act immediately to Allow Cuba to Live, a position that would help enhance the values of the San Francisco Bay Area and become a permanent theme of your political legacy," the letter concluded.
In an Editor's note, Diario Latinoamericano criticized the attacks by the censors of the social network Facebook to prevent messages like that from reaching readers, when "this is the kind of thing we should spread, amplify and multiply to the point of exhaustion".