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Unparalleled Economic Siege

CUBA, October 5, 2009. Washington has made sure, throughout five decades, of earning the right to be described as “guilty of acts of genocide.”

The economic blockade imposed on Cuba almost since the very beginning of the Revolution in January, 1959, has become, undoubtedly, the longest siege laid by an aggressive nation to its victim.

Among all blockades in history, none has been as long, pertinacious and oppressive. The Greeks, according to Homer, besieged Troy for a decade. The Nazis, during World War II, surrounded Leningrad for 900 days.

But several generations of Cubans have known nothing but the hard conditions derived from the economic, financial and commercial war waged by the powerful empire.

Recent calculations affirm that the island has lost no less than 96 billion dollars due to this official US aggression, which, since mid 1970’s, receives every year the approval of the president of the moment at the White House, who, in a similar exercise, usually acts like Caesar at the circus at the time of deciding the life or death of a gladiator in disgrace.

So the blockade it’s an open act of massive genocide, and not by pure journalistic rhetoric. International laws clearly establish that all measures aimed at killing a so-called opponent by hunger or disease classifies precisely as an act of genocide, and not few world organizations rightly use that qualifying adjective when making reference to the issue.

And if the Cuban people has managed to face such violence, amid the attempts coming from the North to asphyxiate the island, and shows important victories in its life as a nation, it has been simply due to its true patriotism and spirit of resistance, along with the solidarity of not few brothers and sisters from around the globe.

They’re the same friends that throughout almost two decades have expressed at the UN General Assembly their rejection of the stubbornness of the White House to the point of isolating it internationally, even though the empire ignores the will of the world.

(Cubaminrex- ACN)

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