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Blockade of Cuba, US World Hegemony

Cuba, the irreverent “threat”

Cuba, the irreverent “threat”

With the “imperative duty to protect” the United States, the Republican president announced that he will impose new tariffs “on imports of goods from a foreign country that sells or supplies, directly or indirectly, oil to Cuba”

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

From the White House on January 29, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency regarding Cuba, which he declared an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” the same country that has been blockaded for more than six decades.
Although they want to make it look like a security measure, it really is the use of pressure as a geopolitical and destabilization tool. Among its aims, it seeks to collectively punish the Cuban people for their firm decision to choose the path of sovereignty and the right to self-determination, which they will not renounce.
Thus, the Executive Order signed by the U.S. president comes into force today, declaring a national emergency in that country, given that – according to the document full of fallacies – Cuba possesses “sophisticated military and intelligence capabilities on its territory that directly threaten the national security of the United States” and maintains relations with “hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign adversaries” of the northern nation.
The U.S. government is lying again, as it does systematically. It knows full well that Cuba does not harbor terrorists, does not give refuge to terrorist organizations, does not torture alleged opponents, and does not cooperate illegally with any country. It is in that territory that murderers such as Luis Posada Carriles, responsible for the Barbados plane crime, and others who still walk the streets of Miami have found shelter.
With the “imperative duty to protect” the United States, the Republican president announced that he will impose new tariffs “on imports of goods from a foreign country that sells or supplies, directly or indirectly, oil to Cuba.” This will hit a cross-cutting player in the national economy.
The consequences will not only affect the government, but will also have a direct impact on the well-being of the population and all sectors.
The measure constitutes an act of economic genocide disguised as national security. The United States cannot impose its will by force, and the world will have to decide which side is right and whether it approves or rejects this ignominy.
Trump’s Executive Order speaks of human rights violations, repression, and regional destabilization in the largest of the Antilles. What it does not say is that the extraterritorial measure it endorses meets the criteria for qualifying under those same elements, in addition to causing human suffering and affecting the lives of millions of people.
The U.S. administration insists that the Caribbean nation supports drug trafficking, even though our country is not a destination, transit point, or warehouse for drugs, as a result of its commitment to a zero-tolerance policy.
The island’s longstanding record in combating terrorism and drug trafficking on the continent has yielded concrete results, cooperating with the United States itself in the fight against drugs and crime. The Executive Order ignores this.
However, it is known that Cuba, due to its geographical location, is part of one of the most active international drug trafficking routes, connecting the production areas in South America with the main consumer market in the United States, First Colonel Yvey Daniel Carballo Pérez, Chief of Staff of the Border Guard Troops Directorate of the Minint, recently told the press.
So, is Cuba—free, independent, sovereign, democratic, with social justice and human solidarity—a threat to U.S. national security or to the development of its hegemonic, expansionist interests and the perpetuation of the serious health crisis generated by fentanyl within its borders?
The Cuban people, descended from Martí, know the monster’s guts and can decipher its lies. They will not be fooled. They have endured almost 70 years of genocidal blockade and have stoically resisted all the empire’s aggressions without renouncing their principles. This time will be no different.

U.S. sanctions on Cuba, US World Hegemony

The only threat to peace in the region comes from the US government

The only threat to peace in the region comes from the US government

The Cuban foreign minister denounced the brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people, whom the US government now seeks to subject to extreme living conditions

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Foreign Affairs, condemned “in the strongest terms” the new escalation by the U.S. government against Cuba in a publication in X.
“Now it intends to impose a total blockade on fuel supplies to our country.”
“To justify this, it relies on a long list of lies that seek to portray Cuba as a threat that it is not. Every day there is new evidence that the only threat to peace, security, and stability in the region, and the only malign influence, is that exerted by the U.S. government against the nations and peoples of Our America, which it seeks to subjugate to its dictates, strip of their resources, mutilate their sovereignty, and deprive of their independence.”
Rodríguez Parrilla also said that the White House “also resorts to blackmail and coercion to try to get other countries to join its universally condemned policy of blockade against Cuba, threatening those that refuse with the imposition of arbitrary and abusive tariffs, in violation of all free trade rules.”
In this regard, he denounced before the world the brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people, who for more than 65 years have been subjected to the longest and cruelest economic blockade ever imposed on an entire nation, and who are now promised to be subjected to extreme living conditions, he remarked.

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The world calls for peace and food, NATO for more weapons and military bases

The world calls for peace and food, NATO for more weapons and military bases.
Between January and May 2022 alone, the United States has committed more than $40 billion in support to Ukraine in the context of the war, and the European Union more than 27 billion euros; however, to address the current food crisis, the West has contributed just $5 billion to UN efforts

Author: Francisco Arias Fernández | informacion@granmai.cu
july 13, 2022 10:07:27

While the world needs and asks for peace, demands food, fuel and fertilizer at lower prices, the drums of war redouble.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo: Taken from pressenza.com


Recently, the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, warned that the world is going through an “unprecedented global hunger crisis,” affecting hundreds of millions of people; a catastrophe caused by food shortages resulting from the impacts of climate change, the years of the coronavirus pandemic, inequality, poverty, the world crisis, the war in Ukraine and sanctions policies.

He stressed out that no country will be immune to its social and economic repercussions, while predicting that this situation will lead to several famines being declared in 2022, and that 2023 could be even worse.

Guterres has insisted on UN efforts for peace in Ukraine and to unblock the export of food and fertilizers from the conflict countries, one of the main causes of the uncontrollable food and fuel price soaring, which has deepened the current crisis.

The senior official called for debt relief for poor countries to help them get their economies afloat, and for the private sector to help stabilize food markets.

Likewise, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) revealed in its recent Food Outlook report that the global cost of food imports will increase by $51 billion as compared to 2021, and that it is worrying that many vulnerable countries are paying more but receiving less food.

While there are growing calls for peace, to mitigate Third World debts; to create UN financial funds to face the critical moment; to stop the war in Ukraine, as it is an open source of instability in Europe; to assume responsible policies against climate change and to face global migratory instability, the West only responds with threats and more confrontation, with ridiculous contributions to the solution of such challenges and betting everything on war.

Every statement of the government of the United States, its closest allies and NATO, overflows with arrogance, interference and the irresponsibility of stirring up the conflict in Kiev even more, and unveiling a veiled declaration of hostility, without much diplomacy, against Moscow and Beijing.

This hegemonic, imperial, pro-American and confrontational purpose was made clear at the opening of the NATO Summit in Madrid by its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who openly lashed out against Russia and China from his opening remarks, singling out both powers, in offensive terms, as the enemies of the present: authoritarian regimes that openly defy the international order.

Rather than a Summit to fix the problems that threaten humanity, its projections are for more weapons, a multi-million-dollar military aid for Ukraine, increased NATO siege against Moscow, increased spending and investment in the war industry, new military bases of the United States in Europe, more intelligence coordination than humanitarian aid to stop migratory flows from the “southern flank” (new denomination); of more fear to justify new concerted sanctions against Russians and Chinese, with an arrogant discourse of cold war in times of nuclear risks, when the American and British leaders persist in showing their teeth.

Between January and May of this year alone, the U.S. has committed more than $40 billion in support to Ukraine in the context of the war, while the European Union and its banks have contributed more than 27 billion euros, according to figures from Germany’s Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

To deal with the current food crisis, the West has contributed no more than $5 billion to UN efforts.

As if that were not enough, the first announcements of the delegation headed by Biden at the Madrid Summit were that it will strengthen its military presence in Poland, Romania, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as in the Baltic region. He also informed that rotating deployments with armor, aviation, air defense and special operations forces in the Baltic will be “increased”.

While the world needs and demands peace, demands food, fuel and fertilizer prices at lower prices, the drums of war are beating under the leadership of Joseph Biden, Stoltenberg and the British Prime Minister, who are taking advantage of the serious crisis they fomented with the war in Ukraine to further consolidate the expansionism of NATO and Washington’s geostrategic interests.

Against the odds of hunger, death or the Third and last World War (of nuclear extermination), the White House and the West persist in preventing peace in spite of the high number of victims, expenses, impacts or crises provoked on the planet, already stunned by pandemics, droughts, famines, uncontrolled migrations and other wars of pillage or plunder, at the Pentagon’s expense.

Although some American and European commentators crudely describe the potential dangers of the warmongering attitude of Biden and his allies, they do not hide the weight that the interests of the Democratic Party group, which is focused on preventing the return of Trump and the Republicans, have in everything that is happening, and they need a high-voltage conflict of great tension to help them position themselves in the “patriotic” current that will allow them to win the mid-term elections next November.

Regarding the results of the Madrid Summit, a Spanish commentator bluntly referred:

“NATO, which had been diagnosed as “brain dead” by President Macron, has received a miraculous expansionist boost (…) Whether such expansion offers more security is written in the stars, even if they are the stars of the American flag, since American governments have always operated according to their own designs or interests, unilaterally, as we have seen in Afghanistan and in other conflicts.”

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Cuba, true to its history, confronts intervention

Cuba, true to its history, confronts intervention
«Resulta hipócrita que EE. UU. no tolere la interferencia en sus asuntos internos, pero promueva y financie acciones desestabilizadoras dirigidas a subvertir el orden constitucional en Cuba», publicó en Twitter el canciller Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla. «Tales maniobras intentan encubrir el atropello de su política criminal e inhumana», apostilló

Author: Raúl Antonio Capote | informacion@granmai.cu
november 5, 2021 12:11:47


Photo: Artwork Frederick Coffay Yohn.
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill supporting the violent counterrevolutionary actions that took place in Cuba July 11. The initiative will now be considered by the Senate, and if approved, will be sent to the President for his signature, to become law at that point.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla tweeted a comment on the move, stating, “It is clearly hypocritical that the United States does not tolerate interference in its internal affairs, but at the same time finances and promotes destabilization mean to subvert the constitutional order in Cuba.”
The bill was sponsored by Democratic legislator Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and received the support of Republican Mario Diaz-Balart, both representatives from Florida.
Pushed by the most retrograde sectors of anti-Cuban politics, this latest interventionist skirmish mounted by mercenary political operators is meant to promote destabilization. But, their hopes of creating a perfect storm – combining the brutal blockade, reinforced with 243 measures imposed by Donald Trump and maintained by Biden and the multidimensional impact of COVID-19 – did not lead to the longed-for collapse of the revolutionary government.
July 11 was a victory of the revolutionary people, the plans of imperialism were defeated in the very streets they sought to fill with chaos and death.
The country did not come to a halt. Mass starvation, collapse of the health system, death and chaos did not occur. Cuba created its own vaccines and medicines, tightened its belt and distributed the loaves and fishes for all. Our health workers saved lives and the country is reborn today, proud of its scientists, inaugurating new factories, passing laws, changing everything that needs to be changed.
Washington threatens, threatens new coercive measures, creates laws that purport to sustain the (in)morality of its mercenaries; while Cuba remains true to its history: peaceful in work and friendship, but unwavering in honor, with our horses saddled and ready for battle.