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A large majority of the member countries of the United Nations,
countries and popular organizations that have benefitted from
the solidarity of Fidel Castro and Cuba in the form of aid in
health care, education, and the defense of the political and
economic rights of minorities since the Revolution of 1959, have
never stopped denouncing and criticizing the criminal United
States embargo against Cuba, but without much success.
It is time to resort to a
peaceful international solidarity movement and unleash a series
of mass demonstrations on specified days to protest against an
embargo whose aim is to destabilize Cuba's economy and inflict
inhumane suffering on its people, and more specifically on
children and the most vulnerable sectors of the population.
Haitians who have served the cause of human liberty by
abolishing slavery are well placed to undertake such an
initiative.
We are convinced that by
establishing links with organizations and countries that have
constantly expressed their opposition to such an inhumane
policy, we could form a committee to coordinate and actualize
these public demonstrations to pressure the United States
government to end its international violation of the Cuban
people’s rights. Let us then take the initiative to launch such
a movement, to which Fidel Castro and the people and government
of Cuba, heroes of international solidarity, are entitled. Acta
non verba. Abrazo. Franck.
Franck Laraque is Professor Emeritus of New York’s City College |
