Dominican lawyer and writer Ramón Antonio Veras on Friday questioned the recent expulsion of several Cuban diplomats by the Dominican Republic government and criticized the official silence regarding the reasons for the measure.
In an article titled “The Government Expelled the Cubans, While Cuba Soars,” Veras argued that, in the absence of explanations and evidence justifying the decision, pro-government sectors are resorting to various arguments to harm Cuba.
In his opinion, there are no serious grounds capable of damaging the dignity of the Cuban people, who, he affirmed, remain “at the highest level.”
The lawyer attributed the difficulties Cuba faces to the blockade imposed by the United States for more than six decades and affirmed that the limitations resulting from this policy have not led the people to renounce their dignity or their principled positions.
Veras emphasized that successive US administrations that have maintained the economic embargo against Cuba have not managed to bring it to its knees.
Ramón Antonio Veras stated that the attitude adopted by that nation is admirable and, in his words, “worthy of praise.” He also affirmed that the country neither abandons nor backs down from its positions and maintains a foreign policy based on mutual respect.
In that regard, he contrasted the Cuban position with that of most governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, which, he stressed, maintain a foreign policy of submission to the United States.
Regarding the expulsion of the diplomats, Veras noted that the Dominican government “has simply remained silent, without offering any explanation” and described this attitude as “silence as a response, a point of silence.”
He asserted that this lack of clarification “diminishes” the Dominican government, while “Cuba’s grows larger.”
The Dominican author also questioned those who, without knowing the reasons for the measure, have justified the expulsion of the Cuban diplomats, maintaining that by doing so, “they diminish themselves, become less powerful, and further erode their credibility.”
He also criticized sectors of the Dominican population who, he claimed, are ideologically committed to the established order and seize any opportunity to attack Cuba without arguments, which he described as a sign of “ideological rigidity, stubbornness, and anti-Cuban obstinacy.”
Veras concluded that, despite the difficulties and the blockade, the Cuban people continue to resist and refuse to surrender. In his view, this attitude represents the dignity of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples.
“Cuba resists, it does not yield,” the lawyer and writer affirmed in closing his article, published from the province of Santiago de los Caballeros.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
