The Associations of Cubans Resident in
Canada appreciate this opportunity to voice our position against the US
blockade imposed on Cuba more than fifty years ago. To the organizers, we also appreciate
deeply your continued solidarity and support for the just cause of Cuba. Thank
you to all the guests and panelists.
Although main stream media have
always tried to sell the discourse that Cubans who have immigrated to other
countries are against their homeland or the socioeconomic system it is
building; it is a fallacy, it is not true, in fact, most of us, all over the world, support and
defend Cuba’s sovereignty and dignity. Therefore, together we stand against the
US blockade that not only affects negatively our relationship with our
families, friends and our country of birth, but also affects us, no matter
where we live.
We repudiate the blockade and all the
punitive sanctions imposed by the US government in its failed attempt to topple
the constitutional government of Cuba and starve its population plaguing with
necessities and scarcities every single day. It pains us as much as it pains
our families and friends in Cuba.
The blockade hits Cuba where it hurts
the most: vulnerable sectors of the Cuban population such as, the sick, the
children, the old are suffering the effects of the US siege in their daily lives,
especially during these times of pandemic.
The blockade also prevents Cuba from
reaching all its potential. All those sanctions are an obstacle for the
elemental right of the island state to conduct business with third parties due to their
extraterritorial implementation.
The illegal US blockade against Cuba
is an aberration, it is the oldest and most comprehensible set of sanctions
ever imposed by a country on another. It is the punishment to Cuba for simply
not accepting Washington’s mandates, and for exercising its right to
self-determination.
It is worth noting that despite all of
the above, Cuba is a world referent in education, health care, human
development care, just to name a few; aspects in which the blockaders register
very poor indexes.
How much more could Cuba have
achieved had it not been for the hostility and aggressions of the United Sates? We can only imagine.
Sisters and brothers, today more than
ever we are certain that Cuba will prevail with our solidarity and support, and
with the spirit of resistance of its heroic people.
To our beloved Cuba we wish
prosperity, progress and peace.
Viva Cuba Libre
