The Cuban people resist in the midst of the onslaught that has the human being as the main target of the weapons that seek to subdue or starve them, through hunger, thirst, darkness, health deterioration, immobility, frustration, confusion, and lies.
The UN Human Rights Office reiterated this last Friday: "This type of sectoral sanctions affects the most vulnerable, are not effective, and do not comply with either the UN Charter or international law because sanctions must be imposed by the Security Council (of the UN), not by a single country."
As persecution and energy blockades against the Island increase, with no real argument other than the attempt to make a country capitulate, renouncing its independence and sovereignty, fascist voices from across the Florida Strait are calling for total strangulation.
It is no longer about a three-day license to kill the faithful the day after; now a permanent blockade of mass destruction is being attempted, with no possible gaps, so that the sick have no salvation, the healthy become ill and deteriorate rapidly, and patients from children's cardiac centers, intensive care units, oncology hospitals, or newborns reach their final hour.
It is not enough to deprive Cubans of transportation means or fuels for cooking food or medicines in pharmacies; the goal is to strip them of everything that allows them to survive.
That is why they applaud the departure of tourism, the lack of flights from distant countries, the spreading of the word so that no one goes to Cuba, so that foreign investors flee, and so that others beyond our borders die as victims of the pressures against medical missions, while chaos and humiliation take over the toxic anti-Cuban propaganda.
Is it "energy diplomacy" or premeditated genocide? Is isolating millions of Cubans and turning their country into a vast laboratory to measure survival capabilities in the face of diverse deprivations the new formula for "peace through strength"?
Voices from all over the world are being heard against the unjust and inhumane mass sanctions imposed on millions of human beings in Cuba for the capital sin of being an example of dignity and emancipation, for defending their right to life, development, and peaceful coexistence with the rest of the world.
From within the U.S. Congress itself, they are acknowledging the obvious: the oil blockade against Cuba is cruel and despotic, stated legislator Ilhan Omar, while denouncing "an economic war designed to suffocate an island, where innocent civilians will pay with their lives to force a regime change."
"We must lift the blockade now," she demanded, while simultaneously, Jim McGovern, a senior member of the House Rules Committee, introduced a legislative initiative to end the policy of economic, financial, and commercial suffocation against the Caribbean nation, which has been in effect since the 1960s.
Like them, hundreds of public figures are demanding that the U.S. government end the criminal blockade against the Cuban people.
