Fighting evil for fifty years

By: Pedro Norat Soto

Havana Province, Cuba. - There is not shaft that can measure the moral stature of the Cuban people. There is no numeric magnitude that can accurately reflect the political will of the Cubans; their unyielding determination to live in freedom and continue along the path opened on January 1 1959.

To confirm it, it would be enough to take a calm and passionless look at the developments of the last fifty years of our History.

This half century lapsed in the heat of a new type of society, built by a Revolution that many still find amazing all over the world.

Such a huge feat was attained in spite of the opposition of the largest and most ferocious empire that humanity has ever known. They have spared no efforts to crush our people´s resistance.

The economic, commercial and financial blockade enforced by the United States against Cuba for the last five decades is one of the meanest weapons wielded in the course of 10 successive US governments.

Nothing has changed since the arrival to the White House of President Barack Obama. This is an issue where he has danced to the tune played by his predecessors.

This measure is the highest expression of a cruel and inhuman politics, devoid of legality and legitimacy. It is deliberately designed to cause hunger, diseases and despair in the Cuban population.

The international community distinctly opposes it. The 17 resolutions adopted every year by UN General Assembly, since 1992 prove it. Furthermore, diverse intergovernmental forums and organizations, as well as individual governments, have adopted agreements and issued declarations that reject the enactment and enforcement of this type of measures.

The genocidal blockade will be rejected again today, when the member countries of United Nations adopt a new resolution against that blockade.

It will be the 18th consecutive year in which the plenary of UN General Assembly debates US siege on the Caribbean island. It is already taken for granted that, once again, the draft resolution will be adopted by an overwhelming majority.

That new victory will multiply the forces of the Cubans that despite the blockade continue their march along the paths of socialism.

Translated by:Pedro A. Fanego

( 28/10/09 1:11 PM )