Despite the hardships imposed by the U.S. blockade, the Cuban people resist and want to live, said Fernando Pereira, president of Uruguay’s Broad Front.
He made this statement in a radio interview about his visit to the island, leading a Broad Front delegation that participated in solidarity activities and met with President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
He said that due to the Washington embargo, intensified by an oil boycott, there are “children in Cuba who are not receiving surgery simply because there are no medical supplies,” but “even so, it is a people who resist, who have the will to live and to fight.”
“Failing to show solidarity at a time when cruelty reigns and it seems that the norm is for one country to arrogate to itself the right to censor the lives of others,” he said, “represents a loss of “human sensitivity.”
Pereira described “what such a strong, inhumane, and callous blockade produces.”
“Imagine a country that hasn’t received a drop of fuel in months, that isn’t allowed to trade freely, a country that has seen a significant drop in the number of tourists as a result of these measures, which are the strengthening of a blockade that has lasted 60 years,” he stated.
“There is a people suffering from a lack of food, medicine, and fuel,” he emphasized.
“There is a people who want to get out of this situation, but not through US intervention.” In this regard, he asked if the blockade measures are the way to end the Cuban regime.
Fernando Pereira stated that the Broad Front went to offer solidarity to a people who are suffering. “It is the same anti-imperialism we have had since the 1970s,” he pointed out.
“We don’t believe in the right of one nation to interfere in the internal affairs of another. We don’t believe in interference. We don’t believe that for one government to change, another has to take measures that cause people to go hungry and suffer health problems. That is terribly inhumane,” said the Uruguayan leader.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
