Cubans are joining the “My Signature for the Homeland” movement, which reaffirms their overwhelming support for the defense of our peace and warns the U.S. government not to interfere with Cuba.
This Friday, the commitment was also signed by journalists and staff of the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina at its headquarters Havana, one more among many symbolic acts of this kind carried out in the most diverse corners of this archipelago and in other parts of the world.
Behind each signature on the paper lies the confidence of many people, convinced that conditions that jeopardize the country’s sovereignty and imply subordination to the imperial designs of Washington will not be accepted here.
“The crisis is hitting us hard. It’s true that mistakes have been made in dealing with it, but it’s also true that the main culprit for our problems is Trump (Donald), there’s no one else,” said a gray-haired man named Roberto, one of the many elderly men and women who swelled the long line at the bank yesterday to collect their pensions.
The place, a section of sidewalk on a central Havana street, became a small laboratory, where one could understand the pulse of Cuba these days, when the bluster of the US president increasingly fuels the belief that a military attack from the northern empire is possible.
In other words, after more than 60 years of existence under the most criminal economic, commercial, and financial blockade in history, all Cubans, from the most diverse social, political, and religious backgrounds, now live under the constant threat of an attack, a bombing by the United States, the possible next blow of Trump’s impotence against the Caribbean nation.
“Well, we’ll see what happens with Cuba,” the US president declared a few days ago, after a photo session at the White House.
“Maybe we’ll make a stop in Cuba when we’re done with this,” he said, referring to the possibility of attacking the Caribbean nation after his failed war against Iran ends.
Unintentionally, he acknowledged an unavoidable reality: “With Cuba, the story is different,” he said, and later referred to his electoral commitment to “many wonderful Cuban Americans, almost all of whom voted for me…”
“…maybe we’ll visit Cuba after we’re done with this,” he reiterated, trying to send a message of supposed underestimation regarding the conflict with Tehran, which could lead to the last global scandal of his presidency, a scandal that has garnered him numerous supporters at home and from international allies.
“Trump embarked on a mission to Iran and needs a victory to pull him out of the ridiculous situation he’s creating,” replied another woman in the line who was listening to Roberto, while cleaning her glasses and asking about the last person in the group of elderly people.
He continued: “We are a peaceful people, we want peace, but they’ll have a hard time here even if they have the best weapons in the world. It’s true that we’ve suffered for many years from blackouts, lack of water, food, transportation, and medicine; it’s also true that we criticize what’s been done poorly, the price increases, the inequalities among Cubans… but it’s clear that much has been achieved and much remains to be defended, so no one here surrenders to the Yankees…”
Clara, as they called her, ended the sentence with a bad word, one that “translated” means that any aggression against Cuba will be answered by this people under the precepts endorsed in the lyrics of the national anthem, forged in the struggles for independence and carved in stone like a tattoo on the national soul: “Do not fear a glorious death/For to die for the Fatherland is to live.”
IMAGE CREDIT: Photo: Abel Rojas Barallobre
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
