End the genocidal siege on Cuba!
New Zealand Cuba Friendship Society Media release
The New Zealand Cuba Friendship society condemns the United States’ latest slew of sanctions on Cuba’s sovereign leadership as well as family members of Cuba’s former leaders.
These sanctions come just weeks after USA’s extrajudicial indictment of Raul Castro, Cuban revolutionary and former president of Cuba for protecting the sovereignty of Cuba from a CIA-aligned group seeking to overthrow the Cuban government in 1996.
The US leverages its diplomatic, military, economic and financial dominance to implement its policy of strangulation on the small island nation of 11 million people.
“This shows a worrying pattern of escalation”, said Dr Josephine Varghese, a spokesperson for the New Zealand Cuba Friendship Society.
“USA’s policies are self-admittedly designed to cause suffering to the civilian population in Cuba, in the hopes of turning the people against their own government”
Cuba, which achieved higher levels of literacy, life expectancy and public health access than the United States has recently seen a sharp crisis in these sectors as a result of the intensification of USA’s blockade and isolationism.
“At the moment the crisis is at a genocidal scale” remarked Dr Varghese, citing a recent study by the Centre for Economic and Policy Research which estimated thousands of excess deaths attributable to the embargo.
The slew of escalations against Cuba shows desperation on the part of the United States, and comes at a time when the US has faced humiliation in its unprovoked, illegal war against Iran.
“Many analysts see this escalation as a means to salvage the Trump administration’s wounded ego following the Iran war debacle”, Varghese said.
Dr Josephine Varghese:
“USA’s policies are self-admittedly designed to cause suffering to the civilian population in Cuba, in the hopes of turning the people against their own government”
USA’s embargo on Cuba which has been ongoing for over six decades has been intensified in recent years, despite it being repeatedly voted down at the United Nations by an overwhelming majority of member states.
Last year, for instance, 165 countries including New Zealand, voted in favour of ending the embargo. Only seven nations – the US, Israel, Ukraine, Hungary, Argentina, Paraguay and North Macedonia – voted against it, while twelve abstained.
The New Zealand Cuba Friendship Society urges parliament to pass a bipartisan resolution condemning the Trump administration’s genocidal actions against the Cuban people.
The New Zealand Cuba Friendship society condemns the United States’ latest slew of sanctions on Cuba’s sovereign leadership as well as family members of Cuba’s former leaders.
These sanctions come just weeks after USA’s extrajudicial indictment of Raul Castro, Cuban revolutionary and former president of Cuba for protecting the sovereignty of Cuba from a CIA-aligned group seeking to overthrow the Cuban government in 1996.
The US leverages its diplomatic, military, and economic dominance to implement its policy of strangulation on the small island nation of 11 million people.
“This shows a worrying pattern of escalation”, said Dr Josephine Varghese, a spokesperson for the New Zealand Cuba Friendship Society.
“USA’s policies are self-admittedly designed to cause suffering to the civilian population in Cuba, in the hopes of turning the people against their own government”
Cuba, which achieved higher levels of literacy, life expectancy and public health access than the United States has recently seen a sharp crisis in these sectors as a result of the intensification of USA’s blockade and isolationism.
“At the moment the crisis is at a genocidal scale” remarked Dr Varghese, citing a recent study by the Centre for Economic and Policy Research which estimated thousands of excess deaths attributable to the embargo.
The slew of escalations against Cuba shows desperation on the part of the United States, and comes at a time when the US has faced humiliation in its unprovoked, illegal war against Iran.
“Many analysts see this escalation as a means to salvage the Trump administration’s wounded ego following the Iran war debacle”, Varghese said.
USA’s embargo on Cuba which has been ongoing for over six decades has been intensified in recent years, despite it being repeatedly voted down at the United Nations by an overwhelming majority of member states.
Last year, for instance, 165 countries including New Zealand, voted in favour of ending the embargo. Only seven nations – the US, Israel, Ukraine, Hungary, Argentina, Paraguay and North Macedonia – voted against it, while twelve abstained.
The New Zealand Cuba Friendship Society urges parliament to pass a bipartisan resolution condemning the Trump administration’s genocidal actions against the Cuban people.
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