Asociaciones de Cubanos Residentes en Canadá envian carta
abierta al Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Canadá.
cubanosjgg@gmail.com
To the Honorable Marc Garneau, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding the June 23rd United Nations Vote on Resolution Against U.S. Blockade Against Cuba
Dear Sir:
On June 23rd, 2021, and for the 29th time, Cuba will
denounce at the United Nations the 60 year old economic, commercial, and
financial blockade imposed on the island in 1962 by the United States of
America. The world will be watching again as their representatives declare
their repulsion to this policy.
Twenty-eight times the world has overwhelmingly voted
against this obsolete and failed attempt of the U.S. to resolve its diferendo
with Cuba by punishing its people, which has suffered severely and has been
deprived of its right to a better quality of life for 60 years now.
The euphemistically called “embargo” has negatively affected
the most vulnerable sectors of Cuban society. Under Donald Trump, the economic
war against Cuba has reached unparalleled levels with more than 240 punitive
measures against the Cuban people. Biden’s has continued this cruel economic
war against Cuba.
In this time of pandemic, the U.S. economic war has made it
extremely difficult for Cuba to obtain medical equipment and other necessary
items required to protect and preserve the health of the people of Cuba.
The unprecedented cruelty of denying patients and their
relatives the ideal medicine for a particular treatment, or the detrimental
effect that the blockade as punishment has had on the essential food segment,
speak by themselves; and this is just to mention two examples of the adversity
the people of Cuba suffers day by day due to this aggression.
Politically this policy, as a remnant of the Cold War, shows
the inability and/or unwillingness of the United States government to find
diplomatic avenues to settle its differences with Cuba. We are proud that
Canada has exemplarily joined the world in condemning this absurd policy in the
past and sincerely hope that again this time, this our second homeland, will
honor once more its tradition of justice and respect for international laws.
Sincerely,
Associations of Cuban Residents in Canada
