Havana, Cuba: President Joe Biden forgot that the United States blockade is the main cause of the economic suffering suffered by the Cuban people for decades, Prensa Latina publishes.
It is regrettable such a slip of the president, who promised when he was the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party to change policies towards Cuba.
A statement regarding the incidents that occurred this Sunday morning, raised from abroad and through social networks, coined some useful terms used in the campaigns against the Island in the effort to discredit its government, discourage the population and create the chaos.
Biden said that “relief from the tragic clutches of the pandemic” is necessary, but overlooked an essential element: it is urgent that his government lift the economic, financial and commercial siege so that Cuba can access markets and obtain resources.
He blames the current situation on the ‘authoritarian regime of Cuba’, but again forgets that the social project being built in the largest of the Antilles was supported by more than 86 percent of its population in a referendum, which supports the free election of their future.
The occupant of the oval office calls for the needs of the people to be met here in ‘this vital moment’, and what if not to develop their own vaccines to immunize the entire population in the face of the reality that it would be difficult, due to the blockade, acquire them in the international market?
What if you don’t get around the pitfalls of financial and commercial persecution to try to ensure that the majority are not left unprotected and left to their own devices?
As the American activist Medea Benjamin expressed, the blockade is the fundamental cause of the deficiencies that affect the Cuban people.
When Covid-19 provokes a worldwide cry of solidarity and cooperation, the government of his country maintains a policy that tries to strangle the Cuban economy, warned Benjamin, co-founder of the pacifist organization Code Pink.
For her, it is criminal for President Biden to maintain the cruel sanctions against Cuba when, with a stroke of the pen, he could lift all the coercive measures imposed by Donald Trump (2017-2021).
However he – she added – is putting crude political calculations that have to do with the internal agenda for the well-being of 11 million Cubans.
Almost six months after arriving in the White House, the Democratic leader continues to show no signs of the promised policy change towards Cuba and, on the contrary, maintains in force the 243 coercive measures imposed by Trump, who took the blockade to extremes.
Analysts suggest that Biden is on the automatic pilot left by his Republican predecessor, since there has been no change in bilateral policy and warn that from January to date, provisions have been made that corroborate that line, such as incorporating a country into the Federal Register not terrorist on the list of scourge sponsoring countries.
They also ratified in a new report published in May Trump’s fraudulent decision to include Cuba in a list of countries that do not cooperate in the fight against terrorism and pointed this out in another on Human Trafficking.
For free, they hardened with lies and rhetorical makeup the infamous text of the report that unfairly accuses Cuba of Human Trafficking and seeks to distort the true nature of the island’s health cooperation programs, diplomatic sources say.
Neither have they been lacking – they indicate – specific threats and misleading recommendations one by one to the nations that have cooperation agreements with Cuba.
In addition, on June 25, they released the notorious terrorist Eduardo Arocena, the cold-blooded murderer in the streets of New York of Cuban diplomat Félix García on September 11, 1980.
By the way, among his criminal acts against Cuba is the provocation of the hemorrhagic dengue epidemic that broke out at the end of May 1981, which affected more than 344,200 people, causing the death of 158, including 101 children.