Bidens Policy on Cuba Reveals Itself by Ms Ramona Wadi!
(2021-07-17 at 23:51:55 )

Bidens Policy on Cuba Reveals Itself by Ms Ramona Wadi!

The assumption that military intervention would fix Cuba only illustrates how the interests of the Miami dissidents are aligned with those of the United States.

As protests erupted in Cuba over shortages of basic necessities, the decades-long illegal United States blockade on Cuba was no longer a part of mainstream media narratives.

In 2020, media focus was on the Cuban contribution to the fight against Covid19 and how, despite the blockade, Cuba had still managed its internationalist approach, while manufacturing its own vaccines. For a brief period, talk about lifting the illegal blockade on Cuba was also part of the international narrative, even as the medical brigades were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Meanwhile, due to the blockade and Covid19, Cubas economy contracted further. Unwaveringly, the United States government also continued with its funding of anti-governments groups. Only the United States intentions are not democratic, despite what mainstream propaganda disseminates.

In April 1960, a memorandum under the heading "The Decline and Fall of Castro" partly stated, "The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship." Calling for economic deprivation, the memorandum further advocated for action which, "while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government."

Given that the United States has never relented in its aggressive policy against Cuba, why is the imperialist narrative suddenly excluded from the greater picture of Cubans protesting against the existing shortages on the island.

The United States economic sabotage of Cuba is well documented and for 60 years, the Cuban people have suffered the effects of United States foreign policy against the island, particularly when it comes to restrictions on trade.

Repeated non-binding United Nations resolutions to lift the illegal blockade have not wrought any change in this regard. The near unanimous agreement at an international level that the United States blockade is harming Cuba is up against imperialist foreign policy, which the mainstream media takes and leaves, depending on which narrative best suits its interests.

United States President Joe Biden has not been particularly forthcoming about Cuba until now, biding his time, it seems, until an opportune moment to build upon the Donald Trump administrations foundations. With Cuba still on the United States terror sponsor list, and no effort to rescind any of former United States President Donald Trumps policies on Cuba, Biden is now playing the humanitarian card to foment political unrest.

The White House statement describes Cubans "bravely asserting their fundamental and universal rights." Undoubtedly so, but not in line with the imperialist designations for the island. If the United States has not relented in its repressive tactics against Cuba, there is nothing to suggest that the people would trade one rule of law for another that has sought their downfall, to reconstruct Cuba as the United States playground reminiscent of the days before the Cuban revolution.

So after upholding Donald Trumps policies, not to mention the illegal blockade, President Biden stated he would be prepared to offer humanitarian aid for Cuba and "to give significant amounts of vaccine" if an international organization would step in. This after Cuba has successfully manufactured its own vaccines which rival both Pfizer and Moderna in terms of efficacy.

Calls for foreign intervention from Cuban dissidents in Miami are adding to the hostility against the island. Would the media think back to the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored assassination attempts on Fidel Castro, and the terror attacks against Cubans, and consider the calls for military intervention in light of decades of failure to bring Cuba under imperialist designs? "We hope that in 2021, President Biden can fix what Kennedy broke in 1961," Cuban exile Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat stated.

The Miami assumption that military intervention would fix Cuba holds no ground, besides illustrating how, decades after the Bay of Pigs invasion, the interests of the anti-revolution dissidents in Miami are aligned with those of the United States.

The logical step would be for the United States to end the blockade and let the Cuban people who have not betrayed the island for the United States chart their course.

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