Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Feb 2.- The civil association Mundo Sur denounced the new escalation by the United States against Cuba, which evidences a systematic harassment sustained for more than six decades and intensified by the administration of Donald Trump.
In a statement, Mundo Sur, which has headquarters in France and Argentina and brings together political, academic, intellectual, and trade union personalities, specifies that the decision to move towards a total blockade of fuel supply deepens the economic coercion aimed at suffocating the Cuban people. And with it, it seeks to force political decisions based on social suffering.
By declaring Cuba an extraordinary and unusual threat to national security, the Trump administration seeks to justify the tightening of the blockade. It warns in this regard that recent history shows that such accusations function as political cover for a broader strategy of domination, in which Cuba is singled out and punished for sustaining a sovereign project independent of Washington's interests.
The energy blockade -it points out- is part of a policy of international extortion: the United States not only punishes Cuba, but also pressures third countries to join this aggression, threatening them with sanctions and arbitrary tariffs if they decide to trade freely. This is a flagrant violation of international law and free trade norms, which reveals the unilateral and abusive nature of these decisions, it adds.
Mundo Sur reaffirms the need for an immediate and coordinated response from peoples, governments, and organizations that defend sovereignty and self-determination. Solidarity with Cuba is not only a political gesture; it is a concrete defense of the right of Our America to decide its own destiny without blockades, threats, or imperial punishments, concludes its statement.
Mundo Sur is headquartered in France and Argentina, from where it promotes innovative projects focused on human rights and from an intersectional gender perspective, aimed at generating structural changes to build more just, inclusive, and participatory societies.
Among others, its members in Argentina include former Foreign Ministers Rafael Bielsa and Jorge Taiana, currently a national deputy; the former President of the Mercosur Parliament Oscar Laborde; Julio Fuentes, President of the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of State Workers; lawyer and trade union leader Roberto Baradel; former deputy Edgardo Depetri; and writer and journalist Stella Calloni. (Text and photo: Granma Digital)
