The Associations of Cuban Residents in Canada join our voice to the worldwide demand for the United States to immediately lift the illegal blockade that it unilaterally imposes on Cuba since 1962. This inhumane blockade not only affects our families and friends on the island, making their lives miserable but also hampers the efforts of Cubans who live abroad to help them, given its extraterritorial implementation.
The US blockade against Cuba, which has been condemned repeatedly by the United Nations General Assembly, seeks to slow down the development of the island at all costs, depriving it of sources of income while making it impossible for the government to carry out the social plans that improve the standard of living of all Cubans. It is the punishment of the most powerful nation in the world to Cuba, which using its right of self-determination, builds a fairer and more equitable socio-economic system. It is the monstrous attempt to try to subjugate an entire people out of hunger and need.
The United States ignores the global demand for the lifting of blockades and the cessation of coercive measures due to the scourge of the pandemic and continues to tighten its unilateral sanctions which prevent Cuba from acquiring the medicines, equipment and materials necessary in its fight against the COVID-19 at home and internationally, where it offers its solidarity contribution to several countries with doctors and nurses, despite its limitations.
We, as Cubans committed to the well-being of the homeland and defenders of its sovereignty, call on all other compatriots, inside the island and abroad, to join us in condemning the blockade, which is a constant violation of the fundamental rights of all Cubans, it limits the nation's human potential and impedes Cuba's economic development.
We demand the US government the immediate lifting of the economic, financial and commercial blockade that it imposes on Cuba and the cessation of all sanctions against our first homeland.
For our beloved Cuba, peace, prosperity and progress.
Asociación de Cubanos Residentes en Toronto “Juan Gualberto Gómez”
Comunidad Cubana en Canadá
Somos Cuba
Asociación de Cubanos Residentes en Ottawa-Gatineau