Andre Lewis, general president of the Technical and Allied Workers Union of Grenada, has urged the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to strongly condemn what he describes as “barbarism” by the United States against Cuba. In a public statement, Lewis denounced the blockade of oil and essential goods as a criminal and inhumane act that threatens the lives of millions of Cubans.
Lewis compared the impact of the embargo to the bombings in Gaza, noting that denying access to food and medicine constitutes a form of “slow and torturous death.” The union leader stressed that Cuba has historically been supportive of the Caribbean and that now is the time to repay that support. “If you cut off the survival of a people, it is a murderous and vengeful act,” he said.
He also called on countries with resources to directly help Cuba and on the international community not to remain silent in the face of what he described as “a new level of inhumanity.”
The statements by the senator were published in the weekly newspaper The Grenada Informer.