Guatemala City, March 12 (Prensa Latina) Guatemalan anthropologist Sandra Xinico expressed solidarity with the hostile policy of the United States government that is causing so much harm to Cuba today, and urged the people of the Antilles to maintain their strength.
This North American practice tends or intends to impose itself on free territories and will surely continue to seek to complicate the situation through an unjust economic blockade against the Caribbean island, the Kaqchikel Mayan researcher emphasized.
In statements to Prensa Latina, he acknowledged the historic struggle of Cubans and all their work to maintain themselves as an independent and sovereign nation, a reference for the various peoples pursuing their liberation, he emphasized.
He ruled out the possibility that all this violence on the part of the United States is solely the result of Donald Trump’s administration, but rather the continuation of imperialist policies of invasion and colonization to subjugate those unwilling to align themselves with their plundering objectives.
What’s happening with the current US president isn’t accidental; “it’s been part of a plan to maintain dependency, as in the case of Guatemala, to make countries like what we’re experiencing here,” the writer asserted.
This subordination to a model that has led to the destruction of our communities, genocide, that has plundered our lands, that has seized the nation’s greatest treasures, said the young woman, originally from the municipality of Patzún, department of Chimaltenango.
And that dynamic is what the United States seeks to impose on Cuba, at the forefront of liberation, which insists that its people have another way of life, he reflected.
Unfortunately, a lot of information reaches us here that is already mediated by the northern country and doesn’t always correspond to the reality that the people live in, the former community leader considered.
Here we receive news as if the United States were a country that wanted to liberate others, that fought for democracy; however, we know that’s not the case, he added.
What they are seeking is to intervene, to penetrate deep into our territories in order to control us and then continue to benefit, Xinico warned.
He also expressed concern about all the anti-immigrant measures and the use of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, to send people deported from the United States, which he described as a racist practice.
We know that the United States was built on a territory stolen from Native peoples; however, we live in a difficult situation regarding memory and our history, the anthropologist argued.
He denounced the policy of returning nationals to their countries through migration, a result of the structural problems we have in countries like Guatemala and the same evil caused by colonial practices.
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