U.S. attitude towards Cuba doomed to failure, they say in France

The policy of hostility assumed against Cuba by the U.S. government is based on criteria condemning it to failure, warned French academic and essayist Salim Lamrani today.

In an interview with Prensa Latina, the scholar of the island, its history and relations with its northern neighbor explained that Washington’s position calls for confrontation, even with its allies, in the attempt to destroy the Cuban Revolution.

According to the professor of the University of La Réunion, located in the French overseas department of the same name, in the case of the administration of President Donald Trump, the actions against the Caribbean country are framed in its erratic behavior.

In his opinion, the United States continues to demonstrate that it ‘suffers from that inability to accept the reality of a free and independent Cuba’.

The island never gives in under violence, threat, intimidation or blackmail, so sincere and respectful dialogue is the only way to resolve the bilateral dispute, he said.

Since his arrival at the White House in January 2017, Trump has opted for a tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed almost six decades ago, with the use of unilateral sanctions and the escalation of the extraterritorial component of the siege.

Particular aggressiveness represents the activation this year of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act of 1996, which seeks to prevent the access of the largest of the Antilles to the necessary foreign investment for its development, within the objective of suffocating it to achieve regime change.

In this regard, Lamrani believed that Washington does not cease to ignore the fundamental principle of the right of peoples to self-determination, and ‘the United States must accept that Cuba’s destiny, its system and its orientation are the exclusive competence of Cubans’.

For the academic, another aspect to consider in the analysis of the superpower’s hostile behavior towards the small island is the use of a rhetoric that is not very credible in order to justify it.

A review of history shows the use of the most diverse pretexts, from nationalizations to the alliance with the Soviet Union, including Cuba’s international solidarity with countries fighting for their emancipation, human rights and the recently alleged sonic attacks, he commented.

The reality is different: Washington does not accept that a small country decides to take to the letter an inalienable right of humanity, which is to decide its own destiny,’ he said.

(Taken from PL in Spanish)

Written by Radio Grito de Baire