Mexican activists condemn US blockade on Cuba

The Mexican Movement of Solidarity with Cuba on Friday delivered a letter to the United States embassy here, reiterating their condemnation of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the island.  

“Today we are joining the heroic Cuban people in their condemnation of the genocidal economic, commercial and financial blockade, and demand that Cuba be removed from the list of states that supposedly sponsor terrorism,” says the letter addressed to the US president, Joe Biden. Members of the organization denounced the “unprecedented intensification of the cruel and inhuman” blockade, in “violation of all international laws, given the extraterritorial nature of the blockade, in addition to being a violation of all human rights.”

In the year coming to an end, Washington was totally bent on cutting off all sources of income for the Cuban economy, threatened and sanctioned the shipping companies supplying Cuba with fuel and intensified the persecution of the island’s financial transactions, they said.

All this, the letter adds, translates into an energy and supply crisis that is weighing down in the population.

The Movement also blasts the unjust inclusion in the unilateral list of the US State Department of countries that supposedly sponsor terrorism, for making it harder for Havana to access to foreign currency.

“All this coupled by a permanent media war, without respite, full of defamation and false information, which is even attacking Cuban medical cooperation for the benefit of many of our sister nations,” it adds.

The letter points out that “the objective remains the same: to generate shortages, provoke anger and desperation, so that the Cuban hold their government accountable, thus leading to the rupture of the constitutional order.”

“We will always advocate the right of peoples to self-determination, we will always defend the decision by the Cuban people to take control of their destiny after January 1, 1959,” said Mexican activists.