Cuba and the Quest for Peace

I am firmly convinced that if the United States' rationale is that Cuba must negotiate its political future with it—id est, the specific reforms that the country, in any case, must undertake organically—, then this Island has no other possible destiny than to wage war against the most powerful nation in the world. The decision between continuing to be a country that defends that sacred right to its full sovereignty and falling into the political destitution of Venezuela has already been made. Yielding to a policy—if such blackmail can even be called "policy"—that forces you to change on pain of being punished with bombs, sanctions, in short, with isolation, is suicidal. Furthermore, as I have said before, this is a dilemma artificially created by an abusive power, one that no country should have to face. And let's not even talk about the "arguments" behind labeling Cuba as a threat.

For those abroad

I am concerned by the casualness with which people are starting to talk about the possibility of U.S. military action in Cuba under the absurd, irrational pretext referenced very recently by Axios. As I have already said, how easy it is to do political analysis when you don't live in the target nation! Even if we assume that Axios's two major assumptions are true, the U.S. knows very well that Cuba has no offensive vocation of any kind, and that any possibility of U.S. targets being attacked from the Island stems only from an attack being carried out on their part first. Therefore, the world, any person, must be very clear here and take a specific position regarding war, regarding the potential—totally unjustified—U.S. intervention in Cuba.

We Cubans do not want to be seen as study material, as daily news, or as a source of expectation. A large-scale humanitarian crisis is underway here, in which the Cuban State undoubtedly bears a very high and critical responsibility, but at the base of which also lies an irrational, aggressive U.S. policy, which, for me, is the main factor of the problem. In other words, the humanitarian costs of that policy—as far as it alone is concerned—are already excessively severe. Yet, many pass over that fact with a startling neutrality. War will be nothing more than immediate, massive annihilation. Then, everyone must reflect and act accordingly. Stand for us, stand for peace, because we are going to stand for ourselves, for the quest for peace.

Source for the cover image.