Cuban Americans and other activists from around the country marched from Times Square to the United Nations this weekend in anticipation of an annual UN vote to condemn the 60-year-old blockade against Cuba. We hit the streets of New York City to ask demonstrators what brought them out to protest and what they think about the Biden administration’s policy toward Cuba.
Miami is known as the bastion of Cuban-American hardliners. But many in Miami don’t support U.S. sanctions on Cuba. Every month Cuban-American activists gather to call for an end to the embargo and better relations with Cuba. Their message of reconciliation has angered pro-embargo politicians like Marco Rubio, who has called for an F.B.I. investigation.
Aleida Guevara, daughter of the Che, talks about her experience with Cuba’s international medical brigades and the importance of solidarity among peoples: “That gives you extraordinary force as a people, truly, because you can say ‘We are capable, we are capable of going to any place in the world where our help is needed’. Neither their skin color, nor their religion matter, not even what they think matters. It doesn’t matter. We can simply be useful and we are. That is one of the most beautiful things of the socialist revolution.”
For sixty years the U.S. has sought to create a U.S. policy, in the words of Mallory (1960), that “while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and the overthrow of government”.
”It is impossible for Marco Rubio and his followers to understand that there are more and more people in the United States every day –regardless of their nationality- who join the struggle against the blockade and for the practice of friendship, solidarity and love, as opposed to hatred, sanctions and the most perfidious policy to suffocate entire peoples”
“Cuba suffers because it has the right to live without a blockade and in peace. Everything would be better without a blockade. The United States would be a better country without a blockade. The world would be a better place without hostilities,” Bruno Rodriguez concluded.
Fifteen days after the passage of Hurricane Ian through western Cuba, authorities, technicians, neighbors, and entire communities are continuing to work tirelessly to reestablish the services most demanded by the population, and much remains to be done. This territory is today the epicenter of the recovery efforts amid the devastation and pain.
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Cuba found to be the most sustainably developed country in the world.
Countries with strong human development and a lower environmental impact score highly, but countries with poorer life expectancies and literacy rates as well as those which exceed ecological limits are marked down.
