Cuba, You Would Be More Beautiful Without the US Blockade

Published in Cuba Debate
(Cuba) on 29 October 2013
by Patricio Montesinos (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Bianca Fierro. Edited by Chris J. deGrazia.
From a high building, I recently photographed one of the many beautiful sunsets near the Havana coast, and I asked myself how much more beautiful Cuba would be without the unjust, illegal blockade that the United States has imposed on this enchanting Caribbean nation for more than half a century.

The question arose from that graphic image a few hours after almost all of the member states in the U.N. General Assembly reiterated their condemnation of the economic, commercial and financial sanctions that Washington has maintained on the majority of the Antilles, despite rejection by the global community.

For the 22nd time and the same number of consecutive years — on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, by 188 votes in favor, 2 against and 3 abstentions — the U.N. approved another resolution that demands the U.S. regime cease its aggressive politics against the graceful archipelago Cuba.

As usual, only the U.S. and its strategic ally, Israel, opposed the practically unanimous opinion at the U.N. headquarters in New York.

Once again, Washington's strong stance against Havana highlights the harmful history of confrontation against Cuba by successive North American administrations — blind conduct aimed at making Cubans surrender through hunger, sickness and need in vain.

Analysts predicted that at the beginning of his second term, the current tenant of the White House, Barack Obama, would at least soften the blockade that has cost Cuba more than a trillion dollars. Yet, what the controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner has done is intensify it.

Obama has followed the bad example of his predecessors, ignoring all the voices that rose up recently once again in New York to refute the old and frustrating stance of North American authorities toward the majority of the Antilles.

The U.S. administration has always feared that Cuba would be the more beautiful and prosperous, and for this reason it has avoided a good neighbor policy between the two countries, separated only by 90 miles of sea and 45 minutes by air.

The bet of the U.S. on the continuous blockade to damage all Cubans also impedes its own citizens’ visits to the Havana coast and deprives them of the delight of the beautiful sunsets and innumerable attractions, with which nature has endowed this island.

The White House persists in its Cuban blockade, violating international norms and laws, human rights and 22 resolutions approved by the U.N. General Assembly that have opposed such criminal and arbitrary conduct.


Recientemente fotografié desde un alto edificio uno de las cotidianas bellas puestas del sol en las cercanías del malecón habanero, y me pregunté cuán más hermosa sería Cuba sin el injusto e ilegal bloqueo que Estados Unidos le impone a esta encantadora nación caribeña desde hace más de medio siglo.

La interrogante originada por la referida imagen gráfica me atrapó a pocas horas de que en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas casi la totalidad de los países miembros de esa organización internacional reiteraron su enérgica condena al cerco económico, comercial y financiero que Washington mantiene a la mayor de las Antillas, pese al rechazo de la comunidad mundial.

Por vigésima segunda ocasión, en igual número de años consecutivos, la ONU aprobó este martes por 188 votos a favor, 2 en contra y 3 abstenciones otro proyecto de resolución que exige al régimen de turno norteamericano el cese definitivo de su política agresiva contra este agraciado archipiélago de la Patria Grande.

Solo Estados Unidos y su aliado estratégico Israel, como es costumbre, se opusieron al dictamen adoptado prácticamente por unanimidad en la sede de la Naciones Unidas en Nueva York.

El nuevo contundente revés de Washington ante La Habana puso otra vez de relieve que la historia nefasta de confrontación con Cuba de las sucesivas administraciones norteamericanas es una conducta obcecada, que ha pretendido rendir por hambre, enfermedades y necesidades a los cubanos, sin conseguir su propósito.

Analistas auguraron que al inicio de su segundo mandato, el hoy inquilino de la Casa Blanca, Barack Obama, al menos suavizaría el bloqueo que ha costado a Cuba más de un millón de millones de dólares, sin embargo lo que ha hecho el controvertido Premio Nobel de la Paz es arreciarlo.

Obama ha seguido el mal ejemplo de sus predecesores, haciendo caso omiso a todas las voces, que nuevamente se alzaron en las últimas horas en Nueva York para refutar la vieja y frustrada postura de las autoridades norteamericanas hacia la mayor de las Antillas.

Washington al principio y al final siempre ha temido que Cuba sea más bella y prospera, y por esa razón ha evadido asumir una política de buena vecindad entre ambos países, separados únicamente por 90 millas, por vía marítima, y solo 45 minutos por aérea.

La apuesta de Estados Unidos por su continuo asedio para dañar a todos los cubanos, impide al mismo tiempo que sus propios ciudadanos puedan visitar el malecón habanero, y los priva de deleitarse con los lindos atardeceres y de los innumerables atractivos que la naturaleza ha dotado a esta Isla.

La Casa Blanca persiste en su bloqueo a Cuba violando las normas y leyes internacionales, los derechos humanos, y las 22 resoluciones aprobadas por la Asamblea General de la ONU contrarias a esa conducta criminal y arbitraria.
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