Dublin, March 26, 2021. Today, within the framework of the international campaign against the blockade, we received new testimonies from Senators, Deputies, the Coordinator of the Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Cuba, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Ireland and friends of the Cuban Revolution, who ratify their condemnation of the blockade against the Cuban people and demand that it be ended.
An image of the monument in Dublin to the victims of the great famine in the 19th century, recalls the use of hunger as a political weapon by empires.
Perhaps to someone that image may seem exaggerated, but that is precisely what the blockade is about, it is enough to recall an excerpt from the Memorandum of Deputy Assitant Secretary of State Lester Mallory in April 1960:
“The majority of Cubans support Castro… There is no effective political opposition… The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support (from the Government) is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship … every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba… denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of the Government”.
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