U.S. tells UN to go to hell on Cuba

Does even one in a hundred Americans know our cruel, senseless economic embargo of Cuba marked its 60th year in 2020? Nearly 80 % of Americans we’re even born when the embargo was imposed in 1960. It’s a relic of Cold War hysteria, and revenge that a pipsqueak island of 6 million could rise up to end six decades of U.S. economic exploitation by appropriating ravenous U.S. businesses stealing Cuban wealth. It lingers thru political inertia, cowardice and cruelty against a desperately poor but courageous people who live in a truly more humane land that we Americans. Universal Cuban health care, education, housing and employment puts American governance to shame.

The UN, the organization America championed during WWII to make the world more peaceful and livable, has taken notice. For 28 straight years it has passed resolutions calling for an end to America’s economic, commercial and financial Cuban embargo. The vote is never close. Last year it was 187 to 3. Joining the US in voting against was Brazil, governed by Trump’s soulmate Jair Bolsonaro, and Israel, experts in the art of keeping unwanted neighbors stateless.

Cuba’s response to U.S. cruelty should be read by every American:
“The blockade has caused incalculable humanitarian damages. It is a flagrant, massive and systematic violation of human rights. It qualifies as an act of genocide under Articles II (b) and (c) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in 1948. There is not one single Cuban family that has not suffered the consequences of this.”

UN resolution number 29, calling for an end to American cruelty toward Cuba, comes up next month. U.S. response number 29, will once again likely tell the UN, “Go to hell.”