Mexico City, November 5 (RHC) -- Under the headline Cuba: "Moral triumph, unpunished aggression," the Mexican daily La Jornada editorializes this Saturday on the vote in the United Nations General Assembly against the U.S. blockade of our country.
As every year, it points out, the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to demand that the United States put an end to its brutal economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.
The resolution, passed with 187 votes in favor, two against and Ukraine abstaining, reaffirms the sovereign equality of all states, non-intervention and non-interference in their internal affairs and freedom of trade and navigation and calls on states to refrain from resorting to such measures, he says.
It also condemns the extraterritorial application with which Washington violates the sovereignty not only of the countries it illegally punishes, but also of all those (including individuals and companies) wishing to engage in trade relations with the sanctioned nations.
It is significant, the newspaper notes, that the only state willing to accompany the United States in its aggressive policy against the Cuban people is Israel, which in turn benefits from the unconditional support of the White House for the genocide it carries out against the Palestinians.
In this way, Washington and Tel Aviv show themselves as the greatest global violators of human rights and remind the international community as a whole that the aggressions against Cuba and Palestine are intimately intertwined by the complicity between these nuclear powers, the newspaper adds.
Propagandistic intoxication, it warns, is another point in common: both the United States and Israel have installed in the multinational media a version in which their victims are accused of terrorism and in which the accusers claim to be attacked when the societies they massacre find any loophole to defend themselves.
The homicidal U.S. conduct during the Covid-19 pandemic, when both Donald Trump and his successor, Joe Biden, prevented the island from importing basic supplies to care for its sick population.
The newspaper also refers to the genocide now being perpetrated by Benjamin Netanyahu's administration in the Gaza Strip and, to a lesser extent, in the West Bank, facts that should convince the global community to stop the symbolic gestures and take action, setting in motion diplomatic, economic, political and cultural mechanisms.
It is exasperating to note that practically the entire planet recognizes the illegality and injustice to which the island is subjected, but, out of fear or complicity, prefers to look the other way while millions of Cubans are deprived of the most basic goods by U.S. obstinacy.
In such a context, it is to be welcomed that Mexico is among the nations that raise its voice against this ignominy and extend fraternal support to the Cuban people, the newspaper concludes.
