San José, July 12 (Prensa Latina) “We confirm to Donald Trump that Cuba is not alone,” friends in Costa Rica who support the island told the U.S. president today, reacting to a memorandum from Washington that toughens sanctions against Havana.
“This is another escalation of arbitrary restrictions and economic, commercial, and political measures that are a clear attack on the sovereignty and dignity of the Caribbean nation,” added the solidarity movement Amor por Cuba-Costa Rica, in a statement obtained by Prensa Latina.
The organization criticized the aggressive nature of the White House’s decisions, “with its violent and arrogant tone of prohibiting American citizens and the Cuban people from maintaining daily relations according to the universal custom of civilized coexistence among nations.”
“Given its narrative and intent,” the text states, “the dictates of Trump’s memorandum constitute an act of outrage against the integrity of Cuba as an independent and legitimate state, adding to the countless outrages perpetrated by the impious despotism of the United States administrations.”
The Costa Rican solidarity movement recalled that, in the more than sixty years “since the triumph of freedom won by the Cuban people, the United States has violated multilateral conventions, international law, and the Charter of the United Nations in all its scope.”
The counterrevolutionary decrees issued by Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he asserts, express “the interests of voracious imperialist corporations, the recolonization strategy of the neocolonial deep power oligarchies, in their futile obsession with subjugating the Cuban people and occupying their territory with impunity.”
“These acts,” Amor por Cuba-Costa Rica asserts, “also reflect the hatred, revenge, and criminal hostility of the “Cuban-American” lobby, as well as of the Washington tyranny, whether in “democratic” or “republican” form and colors, in their vain attempt to crush the Revolutionary Government.”
This new wave of illegitimate and insane prohibitions by Washington demonstrates the disproportionate continuation of the failed and fruitless genocidal blockade against Cuba, through a policy of interventionism, desperate pressure, and anachronistic threats of amendments and unilateral and extraterritorial laws, the statement emphasizes.
“We condemn outright,” Amor por Cuba-Costa Rica emphasized, “the hostile and hateful strategy perpetuated by the United States with the repugnant, ignominious, and unacceptable purpose of plunging the gallant Cuban people into the hell of suffering, helplessness, and absolute precariousness.”
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