End Washington’s economic war against Cuba! No to new sanctions!
https://themilitant.com/2020/10/03/end-washingtons-economic-war-against-cuba-no-to-new-sanctions/
BY JANET POST
Vol. 84/No. 40
October 12, 2020
In a sharp expansion of punishing U.S. government sanctions against
Cuba’s revolutionary people, the State Department Sept. 23 announced a
list of 433 hotels and housing properties U.S. tourists are now barred
from using. The ban is justified by saying these properties are “owned
or controlled” by the Cuban government or members of the Cuban Communist
Party leadership or their relatives.
Almost all of the hotels in Cuba are state run, some in cooperation with
foreign companies. In 2017 the Donald Trump administration restricted
U.S. travelers from using 80 Cuban hotels. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
the Cuban government has only just begun opening some airports and
hotels after shutting them down in March.
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said in a statement, “Authorized
travelers should instead stay in private accommodations, or casas
particulares, owned and operated by legitimately independent
entrepreneurs.”
The Treasury Department also announced it will restrict “participating
in and organizing certain public performances, clinics, workshops,
competitions and exhibitions in Cuba,” unless you can get a special
license from the government.
In addition, the new measures restrict importation of Cuban alcohol and
tobacco products into the U.S.
The goal of the U.S. rulers’ attacks is to make Cuban workers and
farmers pay for their overwhelming support to their revolution.
The expanded government restrictions were publicly announced by
President Trump, who appeared along with Vice President Mike Pence at an
event in the White House to present awards to 23 Cuban American
mercenaries. They had been members of Brigade 2506, part of the
U.S.-organized counterrevolutionary forces who invaded Cuba at Playa
Girón (Bay of Pigs) in April 1961, seeking to overthrow Cuba’s
revolutionary government. The invasion was organized by the Democratic
administration of President John Kennedy and the CIA, and was defeated
in less than three days by a mobilization of the Cuban people.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel responded that the U.S. rulers’
tightened sanctions “violate the rights of Cubans and Americans. Its
cruel and criminal policy will be defeated by our people, who will never
renounce their sovereignty.”
Washington’s decadeslong economic war against the workers and farmers of
Cuba has been carried out by all 12 of the Democratic and Republican
administrations since the victory of the revolution. Fidel Castro and
the July 26 Movement toppled the U.S.-back Fulgencio Batista
dictatorship Jan. 1, 1959. A trade embargo was imposed by President
Dwight Eisenhower in 1960, expanded by Kennedy in 1962, and has been
enforced ever since.
Díaz-Canel spoke for Cuba at the U.N. General Assembly’s 75th session,
Sept. 22. “The aggressiveness of the blockade has reached a
qualitatively higher level that further confirms its role as a concrete,
determinant impediment to the functioning of our economy and the
development of our country,” he said.
“We call for the unconditional end to the U.S. economic war against
Cuba, for an end to all travel restrictions, and demand Washington get
out of Guantánamo,” Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate
Alyson Kennedy told the Militant. “The Cuban people have resisted the
U.S. rulers’ efforts to overthrow their revolution for over 60 years,
and will continue to do so.
“What the capitalist families that run the U.S. fear most is the example
the Cuban Revolution sets for workers and farmers everywhere, especially
in the U.S.,” Kennedy said. “The workers and farmers of Cuba showed us
that with class solidarity and leadership, like they have in Cuba, it is
possible to stand up to enormous might and seemingly impossible odds and
to win.
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