Running the Blockade of Cuba

Associated Press is reporting that a convoy of medical supplies has crossed into Mexico from Texas with Cuba as the final destination. In a spirited display of non-violent dissent, principled clerics are refusing to believe the lies perpetrated by successive U.S. governments and are putting people before warped ideology.

Associated Press is reporting that a convoy of medical supplies has crossed into Mexico from Texas with Cuba as the final destination. In a spirited display of non-violent dissent, principled clerics are refusing to believe the lies perpetrated by successive U.S. governments and are putting people before warped ideology.

On this issue I can speak with some personal experience, I took some medicines to Cuba two years ago. A colleague and I ended up donating them to Catholic nuns working with sufferers of leprosy. In further refutation of the neo-con claim of religious persecution, Havana has an enormous statue of Jesus overlooking the old city and many churches are still active, we visited the Church of the Yemanja, the Black Madonna in Reglas, for example.

I urge every U.S. citizen in particular to go to Cuba and see for themselves what the situation there is. Cuba certainly has problems of it’s own making, due to an overly authoritarian government which has obstructed legitimate policy debate by its citizenry. However this is an outcome of brutal terrorism inflicted by the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan and Bush I administrations. As many commentators have noted, Castro’s support is derived from his resistance to the U.S. Monroe doctrine in exactly the same way Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq gains local support by taking a stand against the empire.