Let Cuba Live! : A Call to Conscience demanding an end to Donald Trump's cruel assault on the Cuban people
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Let Cuba Live! : A Call to Conscience demanding an end to Donald Trump's cruel assault on the Cuban people
On Monday 9th, an open letter under the name "Let Cuba Live!" was released denouncing Donald Trump´s new Executive Order that seeks to cut off Cuba's access to oil as an intentional attempt to induce famine and mass suffering for the Cuban people.
Influential public figures, elected officials, artists, and organizations—including 22 Members of the New York City Council, Mark Ruffalo, Kal Penn, Susan Sarandon, Alice Walker, Alexa Aviles, 50501, Movement for Black Lives, The People's Forum, IFCO Pastors for Peace, ANSWER Coalition, and many others—have already signed this powerful Call to Conscience demanding an end to Donald Trump's cruel assault on the Cuban people.
"This policy is unconscionable. It deepens a humanitarian crisis of our own making. Cuba poses no threat to the United States. Starving a population into submission is not diplomacy; it is a form of terrorism", the letter explains.
The Letter:
US President Donald Trump is trying to induce a famine in Cuba. Mass starvation and human suffering in Cuba is the goal of Trump's latest 'emergency' Executive Order preventing Cuba, an island nation, from importing oil or any energy sources needed to survive. It is a cynical and crude ploy to distract public opinion from the issues at home that are eliciting mass public dissent, and as we've seen with Venezuela, a precursor to an illegal military attack.
We, along with millions of people in the United States and around the world, reject this inhumane act against the people of Cuba. This is not a policy of national security; it is a deliberate act of economic warfare aimed at strangling an entire population.
President Barack Obama initiated an important effort to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba. The two countries reopened their embassies after they had been closed for 50 years. People across the United States, Cuba, and the entire Western Hemisphere greeted this as a welcome end to the anachronistic Cold War policies that had dominated the relationship.
But Trump has reversed the path that the Obama administration began. His January 29 Executive Order labels Cuba an 'unusual and extraordinary threat' to the United States. This is obviously false, but it provides a pretext to impose severe economic penalties on any country that attempts to deliver oil or trade with Cuba.
The consequences of the new Executive Order will be measured in human suffering:
Families will be left without power for light, refrigeration, and cooking.
Hospitals will face impossible choices, risking the closure of wards and the suspension of critical treatments.
The distribution of food and medicine will be paralyzed.
The most vulnerable—children, the elderly, and the sick—will bear the brunt of this cruelty.
This policy is unconscionable. It deepens a humanitarian crisis of our own making. Cuba poses no threat to the United States. Starving a population into submission is not diplomacy; it is a form of terrorism.
We call on all people of conscience to reject this cruelty and demand an immediate end to the blockade. For over 30 years, the UN General Assembly has voted annually, with an overwhelming majority, to condemn the US embargo on Cuba. Trump must carry out his foreign policy with respect to the wishes of the people of the United States and in accordance with international law.
We, the people of the United States, want to have normal relations with Cuba, treat Cuba with equality and respect, and most importantly to see Cuba and the Cuban people as our neighbors and not our enemies.
Let Cuba Live! Cuba is not a Threat!
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CUBA IS NOT A THREAT TO THE USA. But Trump wants to rule the world, especially the Western Hemisphere, and he will strangle innocent nations to accomplish his end.
No?
Then return the land Castro stole to the Cuban people and we'll leave them alone.
You mean you would make the poor people suffer and die for some historical wrong that has nothing to do with America?
From who, Batista and his american angels?
Before Fidel Castro took power in 1959, the Cuban economy was heavily dominated by United States corporate and private interests, alongside a small, wealthy Cuban elite . U.S. investors controlled roughly 75% of arable land, 90% of essential services, and 40% of sugar production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista#:~:text=Fulgencio%20Batista%20y%20Zald%C3%ADvar%20%5Bb%5D,%5Bc&text=was%20a%20Cuban%20military%20officer%2C,the%20Cuban%20Revolution%20in%201959.
You know as well as I do that Castro invited the Soviet Union to install missiles in Cuba, a mere 90 miles off the coast of the US. He also tried to export his Communist revolution to other countries in Latin & South America.
From the Cuban people, many of whom now living in Miami.
Before Fidel Castro took power in 1959, the Cuban economy was heavily dominated by United States corporate and private interests, alongside a small, wealthy Cuban elite . U.S. investors controlled roughly 75% of arable land, 90% of essential services, and 40% of sugar production.
Yes, he also stole what belonged to American investors as well as Cuban businesses such as Bacardi.
BTW Wikipedia is not a very good source of reference.
Wikipedia co-founder says site is now 'propaganda' for left-leaning 'establishment'
And just what was America upto in Cuba other than general mayhem and an estimated 20,000 killed?
Historical revisionism can be either true or false, yours appears to stem from the latter.
One could argue that it's better than AI, at least at this point in AI's learning curve.
Larry Sanger is a butt hurt cofounder who got removed a year after Wiki launched and he been bitching loudly ever since. the more Wiki succeeds, the more he complains.
From Americans, like the Rat Pack and the Chicago Mob, lol. Like the Club Hemmingway and Hotel Placo
... and the NYP, a "'propaganda'" site for right-leaning establishment jumped all over it with their BBB hunger-game ethos.
Don't forget Johnny Rocco ...
And you know as well as I do that the Brits invaded America from Canada and burned The White House. So why don't you consider Canada an enemy?
That was history same as Castro was. Since then it changed until America decided to demonize Cuba again for NO GOOD REASON.
FYI The Soviet Union no longer exists and Castro is dead...
I am assuming that you realize that he is no longer alive . . .
(So who should we punish for his sins?)
But his regime survives. Those in control of Cuba have held onto all the money. The people there are suffering.
You mean that it is still a "commie" country, not a nice peaceful country like America? So Trump will make them suffer even worse.
I hope you are not going to try and defend Communism.
Communism depends on killing people. First to gain power and then to maintain it.
But Communism still exists in Cuba.
What?
That was history same as Castro was. Since then it changed until America decided to demonize Cuba again for NO GOOD REASON.
Castro, who lied about what he was, brought Communism to Cuba through a violent revolution. He then arranged for the Soviet Union to deploy missiles in his country pointed at the US. Cuba is still aiding our enemies and trying to destabilize governments in the western hemisphere.
The stories on Wikipedia are posted by members, just about anybody writes them up. Wikipedia can never be a source.
I don't have to, it's doing a bangup job by itself.
What a sick comprehension of it. Ever heard of a kibbutz? It's a form of Communism without your concerns about it. Even though I'm not a Communist I'm not the least bit afraid of it, and am completely comfortable living in a Communist country. IMO American leaders create a fear of it, like McCarthy did, because they are afraid of the competition, and therefore their followers are taught to fear it as well.
However, this is not the place for such a discussion.
Thank goodness we don't have problems like that in the United States!
And you are afraid of it? Is it a danger to you, or to your country's "National Security" is, like everything else on Earth is according to your leader?
Cuba sent troops to Angola!
Sixty years ago.
I'm pretty sure Trump's goons have killed far more "enemies of the regime" than has Cuba's Communist Party.
Wikipedia has thousands of fact checkers/editors and thousands of VRT volunteers who respond to vandalism etc.
While there are relatively few Wikipedia Foundation employees, there are over 300,000 Volunteer editors who keep the information unbiased.
It's as much a tool as the Encyclopedia Brittanica or the Bible.
Use it or don't at your own peril.
It's certainly light years ahead of quoting social media opinions from twitter/X of Face Book and trying to pass them off as factual.
You know as well as I that Kennedy tried to invade Cuba.
Both episodes are over sixty years old.
What are we - Hatfields and McCoys?
Do you even know what year it is?
Sort of like the Catholic "Church" for 2,000 years? the nerve of that man.., /S
Well if that's what they're trying to do, they're certainly not doing a very good job!
Apparently so does the Trump administration...
Everything we need to know about Communism is here:
The Peoples' Cube
They sure did a number on that guy in Venezuela.
Oh, wait...
Lenin would call them useful idiots. They put themselves in harm's way to be the left's martyrs.
I think history tells us all we need to know.
Nothing like killing 100 million of your own people, though.
He did a shity job of it didn't he?
He didn't want anyone to know it was the US so he cut of the needed air support and left all those Cuban patriots at the mercy of Castro's killers. Then he made a secret deal with the Soviet Union that if they took out the missiles, we would take out the missiles we had in Turkey and sign an agreement to never invade Cuba.
We had a liberal president
95% of the "illegal Immigrants are no threat to the US either but the Administration will go to all inhumane methods to create another Trump success story by starving Cuba into some
sort of submission when the previous 15 Administrations refused to stoop so low as to negatively harm the Cuban population.
Trump is spelled "U N C O N S C I O N A B L E".
The more unconscionable the better, apparently, no ally or citizen is any safer than his declared enemies list.
Maybe Trump wants them to give him their well-preserved vintage cars.
Pics remind me of my 1st car, a 1966 Vauxhall Viva
The embargo on Cuba hasn't been about international relations since at least the Castros' deaths. It is purely American/Floridian politics. Cuban "refugees" - often with fortunes dating back to Batista - are big players in Florida politics, while Cuba and Cubans have no voice at all. The "refugees" want their money and power back.
Simple.
Are you saying that is a reason to strangle the Cuban population?
I'm saying that is the reason.
Not that it should be.
Then you are saying it is a nefarious cause.
Of course.
I think that this article has gone astray, so "That's it Folks".