Autumn and Spring

By: Pedro A. Fanego

Havana Province, Cuba. – We feel the impact of the blockade throughout the year. Therefore, Cuban people, political and mass organizations and the media denounce it at all seasons.

However, in the autumn there is more talk than usual about the blockade. The reason is not the scourge of hurricanes, which have fortunately given us a break this year. Neither are the blockade attempts to turn the lives of Cubans as gray as the autumn sky. Every October, since 1992, the General Assembly, the most democratic body of the not-so United Nations, adopts the resolution “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the USA against Cuba.”

Seventeen years ago, it seemed impossible that the international community would dare making the superpower of a unipolar world sit in the defendants’ stool. But Cuban people’s heroic resistance, the prestigious revolutionary foreign policy and its selfless and humanitarian internationalism prevailed upon the Empire’s threats and blackmails.

In the last 16 autumns, the number of votes for the end of the blockade has grown unceasingly, while the opponents of the Cuban resolution never exceeded 4. In 1994 we overcame the barrier of 100 votes and in 1998 we jumped over the wall of 150. The 179 votes of 2003 and 2004 seemed an unsurpassable figure. But the figure continued to grow until last year, when we reached the top of 185, out of the 192 members of the United Nations.

The resolutions adopted by UN General Assembly have no binding character. Their significance is only political and moral. Therefore, at present, we should not expect much from the impact of the outcry of the overwhelming majority of humankind.

The new administration announced changes, but the empire is still the same. The system is designed to serve the interests of the great power groups. There is a group of rogue politicians embedded like a cancer in US Congress. They serve the Florida-based anti-Cuban mafia and still have too much influence.

But every October, justice and truth blossom when the Caribbean David inflicts a humiliating defeat to the Goliath of the North. Then the autumn turns into a radiant spring for those who still believe that a better world is still possible.

Translated by:Pedro A. Fanego

( 28/10/09 3:08 PM )