OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD: FROM CUBA, AN ORDINARY WOMAN DENOUNCES THE CRIME THEY REFUSE TO SPEAK
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I DENOUNCE THE STORY OF MY GRANDPARENTS:
I denounce the fact that in Cuba, elderly people are dying prematurely because the blockade prevents the arrival of medications for heart conditions, high blood pressure, and diabetes. This isn’t a lack of resources. It’s a deliberate prohibition. Companies that want to sell to Cuba are fined, persecuted, and threatened. Their governments remain silent. And meanwhile, a Cuban grandparent clutches their chest and waits. Death doesn’t give warning. The blockade does.
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I DENOUNCE THE STORY OF MY CHILDREN:
I denounce the fact that incubators in Cuba have had to be shut down due to a lack of fuel. That newborns are fighting for their lives while the United States government decides which countries can sell us oil and which cannot. That Cuban mothers have seen their children’s lives endangered because an order signed in a Washington office is worth more than the cry of a baby 90 miles from their shores.
Where is the international community? Where are the organizations that so vehemently defend children? Or do Cuban children not deserve to live?
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DENOUNCEMENT OF INTENTIONAL HUNGER:
I denounce the blockade as programmed hunger. It’s not that there’s a lack of food for no reason. It’s that we’re prevented from buying it. It’s that ships carrying food are harassed. It’s that bank transactions are blocked. It’s that companies that sell us grains, chicken, and milk are sanctioned.
Hunger in Cuba is not an accident. It’s a state policy of the United States government, refined over 60 years, updated by each administration, intensified by Donald Trump, and viciously implemented by Marco Rubio.
They call this “economic pressure.” I call it terrorism through hunger.
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I DENOUNCE THE SITUATION ON BEHALF OF MY DOCTORS:
I denounce the fact that our doctors, the same ones who saved lives during the pandemic while the entire world collapsed, now lack syringes, anesthesia, and X-ray equipment. Not because we don’t know how to produce them. Not because we lack talent. But because the blockade prevents us from accessing supplies, spare parts, and technology.