Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Harare, September 22. - The United States blockade against Cuba is the most comprehensive act of economic warfare ever imposed on a people, Mafa Kwanisai Mafa, Coordinator of the Fidel Castro Chair at the Midlands University of Zimbabwe, denounced today.
This blockade is illegal, immoral, genocidal, and universally condemned, the researcher maintained in a statement that also affirms Cuba's unwavering resistance in unmasking the criminal blockade and building global solidarity.
According to Mafa, for more than six decades, the island's people have endured one of the most brutal and persistent acts of imperialist aggression in modern history, a hostile policy that is intensifying with surgical precision as a weapon to strangle the economy, undermine the Revolution, and cause social collapse.
The recent report (May 2025) on this genocidal practice, he recalled, exposes its devastating impact, while celebrating the global rejection of US coercion.
He also recalled Lester Mallory's "infamous 1960 memorandum," which openly admits the goal of denying money and supplies to "cause hunger, desperation, and the overthrow of the government."
This is nothing less than an imperialist siege, an act of collective punishment prohibited by international law, which has cost accumulated damages exceeding $170 billion by 2025.
According to the Coordinator of the Fidel Castro Chair, between March 2024 and February 2025 alone, losses reached $7.5 billion, a 49% increase compared to the previous year.
The blockade, he opined, is the most extensive and comprehensive system of unilateral coercive measures ever imposed on any country, prohibiting Cuba's access to essential medicines, spare parts, financial markets, and even digital platforms.
Mafa exemplified its genocidal nature with the fact that 40 foreign banks refused to process Cuban transactions between 2024 and 2025 for fear of US sanctions, while airlines, shipping companies, and even cultural platforms like Spotify deny access to the Caribbean nation.
According to the professor, this extraterritorial reach violates the sovereignty of third countries, as it is not only a crime against Cuba, but also an attack on the United Nations Charter, undermines the right of peoples to self-determination, and constitutes unilateral coercion on a global scale.
What makes Cuba extraordinary is not only its survival, but also its refusal to surrender its dignity. The call to lift the blockade is not an act of charity, but a call for justice, he concluded. (Text and photo: PL)
