Dominican Newspaper Highlights Cuba's Struggle against US Blockade

Havana, Nov 17 (ACN) Dominican social and political activist José Alberto Díaz published an article on the local “Lucha” newspaper recalling hat for more than six decades, the United States has maintained a severe blockade of Cuba to suffocate it economically, "with the argument that it seeks to combat socialism."

Under the title "Cuba: the resistance of a people and the support of the world," Díaz published in the newspaper Lucha, the official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Labor (PCT), that faced with this position of Washington, an inevitable question arises: if Cuban socialism "doesn't work," why so much effort to prevent the people from deciding their own destiny?

The blockade not only impacts the government, but also directly affects the population. It limits access to medicines, food, technology, and international financing, he maintained, as cited by PL wire service.

He highlighted that each year, the United Nations General Assembly votes almost unanimously to demand an end to this unjust policy.

"That world solidarity is not just an ideological gesture: it is a recognition of the right of a people to exist and develop without external pressures or blackmail," he pointed out.

Díaz noted that in the midst of this scenario, the largest of the Antilles demonstrates a notable resistance, while highlighting its history of solidarity with the sending of doctors to more than 60 countries and the development of its own vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, even during the Covid-19 pandemic.

"It has bet on education, culture, and science as pillars of its national identity. This capacity for resistance is not explained solely by ideology, but by dignity, by the deep sense of independence that has characterized its people since 1959," when the Revolution triumphed, he noted.

For the author, "the world observes and accompanies, because it understands that it is not just about Cuba, but about the principle of sovereignty; of the freedom of each nation to choose its own political and social path without suffering punishment for it."

He considered that the peoples who support that Caribbean island do so "because they know that solidarity is the true transforming force, the one that challenges injustice and sows hope, even in times of siege."

He concluded that Cuba's resistance also reflects that of those who believe that a more just and humane world is still possible.