It has been a week since the September 24th terrorist attack on the Cuban embassy. This recent act of violence, which involved two molotov cocktails being hurled at the building, was the second in the last three years – the last involving an individual shooting thirty automatic rifle rounds at the embassy in 2020. The attack came a day after a Cuban delegation, led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel wrapped up their visit to the United States for the United Nations General Assembly, where they met with multiple US-based activists and organizations who work in solidarity with the international call to end the blockade against Cuba.
This act of cowardice is in itself an act of terrorism and the act itself begs for us to question, “Who are the real terrorists?” How hypocritical is it for the United States to designate Cuba – internationally respected for its medical solidarity – as a state sponsor of terrorism, while actual terror attacks are committed by US citizens historically and presently against the Cuban people?
The Venceremos Brigade stands in solidarity with Cuba in continuing to advocate for the US to remove Cuba from the State’s Sponsors of Terrorism List (SSOT). Joe Biden has not lived up to its political promise to lift the inhumane unilateral blockade against Cuba, which not only harms the Cuban people, but anyone in Latin America and the Caribbean that has sought to pursue trade and travel relations within their region.
We now see an important opportunity to seize the time and accomplish these tasks. With the indictment of US Democratic Senator Bob Melendez and his stepping down from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), we see the removal of a primary advocate of the economic and diplomatic war waged against Cuba and other countries that have sought to develop independent of US-dominated and colonially-rooted financial institutions. The Venceremos Brigade calls on all those who wish to see Cuba live with their self-defined dignity to take action on all fronts in calling President Joe Biden and the United States Congress to remove from Cuba the unjust SSOT designation, the blockade, and to end the constant military provocations embodied through the continued illegal occupation of Guantanamo Bay – all of which continues to harass the Cuban people. Only through solidarity with these causes can we strengthen our own struggles for social justice.
One action we can all take is signing the petition linked below, demanding the removal of Cuba from the US State Department’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Only through solidarity with these causes can we strengthen our own struggles for social justice.
Let Cuba Live!
Take Cuba #OffTheList NOW!
#CubaSi #BloqueoNo