Cuba, You Would Be More Beautiful Without the US Blockade

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.