Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 6 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Luis Arce called here today in a speech to demand an end to the United States economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba.
“Let us continue on the irreversible path of multipolarity, where unilateral coercive sanctions, such as the criminal economic and commercial blockade against our sister Republic of Cuba, have no place,” he stated, calling Washington’s retaliation an unjust measure that violates human rights.
Speaking at the 17th BRICS Summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) in Rio de Janeiro, Arce warned that this weapon of economic warfare, maintained for more than six decades, “limits the full development of the brave, dignified, and supportive Cuban people.”
He maintained that the common struggle to achieve a profound reform of global governance implies the rejection of current hybrid wars and the United States’ military intervention strategies, which are reiterated through NATO or through bombings such as those recently carried out in support of Israel’s unjustified aggression against Iran.
“It is inconceivable that the Security Council (of the United Nations) continues to be held hostage by a few countries and by obsolete operating mechanisms, such as the veto, which perpetuates imperialism’s impunity to violate human rights, sovereignty, and the right of peoples to self-determination,” he said.
Arce emphasized that we must reaffirm our firm condemnation of Israel’s genocide against “our Palestinian brothers and sisters,” and demand a solution that allows them to live in peace and dignity in their own territory.
In his words, he warned about what he called modernized colonialism and a “multidimensional form of warfare in which economic and political attacks interact.”
He indicated that this is a new style that uses corruption, drug trafficking, disinformation, and international crime as political weapons, within the context of a series of destabilizing actions; and that maintains the economic blockade and other forms of aggression against countries and governments seeking self-determination.
The dignitary warned that along these lines, military action cannot be ruled out to disrupt democratic processes that seek to break free from Western dependence.
“Bolivia has not escaped this type of war,” Arce stated, “wound by actors historically known for their alignment with the United States’ policies of domination, and which has been joined by factions of the popular camp won over to a line of action other than that of emancipation,” the head of state concluded.
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