In the midst of this pandemic we have seen with sadness an increasing number of victims reported every day in the world. Large numbers of people, including healthcare workers, are doing their best to avoid worst consequences. The best human values today are visible and fill us with pride in times of crisis.
Another more recent example of the criminal application of the United States #blockade against Cuba.
Sanctions should not stop the delivery of medical equipment and supplies to countries trying to contain outbreaks of coronavirus, the EU’s top diplomat has said.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, made his comments in a declaration on Friday in which he backed the UN’s call for an immediate global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the pandemic.
“The European Union also stresses that sanctions should not impede the delivery of essential equipment and supplies necessary to fight the coronavirus and limit its spread worldwide,” he said.
CUBA has blasted the continuing US economic blockade warning of a “violation of human rights” after a shipment of vital medical aid from China was stopped from reaching the country on Tuesday.
Washington was accused of acting with “Wild West brutality,” using the Covid-19 outbreak as an opportunity to “strangle the Cuban Revolution.”
“Cuba denounces the fact that medical supplies from Alibaba Foundation to help combat Covid-19 have not arrived in the country due to the criminal US blockade against the island nation,” President Miguel Canel-Diaz blasted.
As expected, Cuba is once again at the centre of several controversies and, as it is often the case of these cyclic events of media and public crucifixion, the country is the centre of "world heresy", according to several trifling and perpetual Cubanologists
Author:Oni Acosta Llerena | internet@granma.cu