Statement of Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist - Leninist. CPGB-ML
The CPGB-ML hails the extraordinarily humanitarian and internationalist response of the Cuban state, Communist Party and people to the scourge of the Coronavirus. Despite Cuba being only a small country whose economy has for six decades been relentlessly buffeted by US sanctions designed to starve it into submission, its generosity to the world and the effectiveness of the measures it has taken to combat the virus both at home and abroad is a tribute not only to Cuba but to socialism.
Mara Tekach - Head in office of Dissidence in Cuba
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.
Blockade: U.S. Company buys key lung ventilator manufacturing firms for COVID-19 and suspends sales to Cuba
Another more recent example of the criminal application of the United States #blockade against Cuba.
Sanctions should not impede coronavirus fight, EU diplomat says
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.
US blocks medical aid to Cuba in show of ‘wild west brutality’
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.