One week after its signing, condemnations continue to pour in against the executive order issued by US President Donald Trump, which attempts to deprive the island of oil supplies, thus cruelly reinforcing the blockade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For activist V\u00edctor Coronado, a member of the Hands Off Cuba Committee, New Jersey chapter, \u201cthe objective is clear: to subdue the Cuban people through hunger, foment dissent, and try to destroy the Cuban Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On January 29, President Trump signed the decree, which labels Cuba an \u201cunusual and extraordinary threat\u201d and declared a national emergency to impose a new blockade, cutting off the island\u2019s access to foreign oil, Coronado told Prensa Latina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The order states that Cuba \u201cdirectly threatens the security, national security, and foreign policy of the United States,\u201d accusing it of collaborating with terrorists and violating human rights; however, none of this is true, he emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFirst of all, Cuba does not represent any existential threat to the United States, nor has it ever. Suggesting otherwise is similar to when Latin American parents scare their children with the bogeyman to make them behave,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This administration, like previous ones, is inventing an enemy to make the American people fear it, the activist said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He commented that \u201cin reality, Cuba has never declared war on the United States, nor has it financed media outlets to influence American public opinion, nor has it attempted to harm the U.S. economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the contrary, \u201cthe United States has done all this and more against Cuba since the Bay of Pigs invasion (Playa Gir\u00f3n) in April 1961\u2014which resulted in the first major defeat and the assassination attempts against Fidel Castro\u2014up to the current blockade and the taxpayer-funded propaganda outlets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there is the accusation, he added, of collaborating with terrorists. \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous, and the international community doesn\u2019t believe it. Cuba is a signatory to all the main United Nations instruments against terrorism, has systematically denounced terrorism worldwide, and has even cooperated with the United States in the fight against terrorism,\u201d Coronado noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He recalled that, meanwhile, on U.S. soil, \u201cthey have given refuge to known anti-Cuban terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, who died peacefully in Miami without justice being served, and have allowed counterrevolutionary terrorist groups to operate from that South Florida city for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The accusation of human rights violations \u201cignores what the Cuban Revolution actually provides: the right to housing, education, healthcare, public safety, and a dignified life,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is astonishing and ironic, he opined, the way the United States accuses Cuba, when here there are \u201cmore than 770,000 homeless citizens, no universal healthcare, the largest prison population and rate in the world, and it is the only nation that has used nuclear weapons, twice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe, he argued, that historically the United States has maintained \u201ca near-permanent state of war, overthrows governments, supports dictators, and sponsors death squads throughout Latin America. And yet it believes it has the moral authority to judge Cuba and accuse it of human rights violations? Unbelievable!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coronado believes the Trump administration \u201copenly defies international law, as seen in the January 3, 2016, attacks against Venezuela\u2014which resulted in the deaths of 32 Cuban citizens\u2014and in statements by officials like Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who declared, \u2018I don\u2019t care what the United Nations says.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump himself acts as if his only limit is his own judgment, noted the activist, who was born in the United States to Dominican parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBy reviving the Monroe Doctrine \u2014 now they want to call it the Donroe Doctrine \u2014 this administration seeks nothing less than the recolonization of our hemisphere, and the threats against Cuba fit perfectly into that imperial strategy,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cuba has repeatedly expressed its willingness to resolve disputes through dialogue, with mutual respect and on equal terms, Coronado warned, insisting that \u201cthe international community must do more to curb U.S. imperialism, because peace must always be the option.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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