I think a relief mission is unlikely, because I suspect the
Americans care about as much for the ordinary people of
Cuba as they do for the ordinary people of Afghanistan.
And Iraq. And Vietnam. And Chile. And Korea.
Michael Robbins,
UEA.
The opinions expressed in this email are my own, and do not
reflect the policy of UEA.
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:41:51 +0000 Nick Moore
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I think a relief mission to Cuba would be a wonderful thing. The
> Americans could mount it from Guantanamo Bay - the naval base that they
> have been illegally occupying for many years.
>
> Nick Moore
>
>
> In message <278A15B828BFD51180C700A0C9457DB80AE9AD@HOP-EX-1>, Lewis,Aran
> M <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >Of course Cubans can't use the internet. They can't afford such basics as
> >soap, never mind computers, because-
> >"Cuba has been subjected to an illegal blockade by the U.S. government for
> >40 years. This blockade applies to all goods including food, medicine, books
> >and information.
> >In 1998, at the United Nations, 157 countries, including Britain, voted
> >against the blockade. Only 2 countries, USA and Israel, voted to support it!
> >
> >Cuba has started legal proceedings to reclaim over L1 billion in damages
> >from Washington for deaths and injuries the socialist island has suffered
> >during 40 years of U.S. hostility.
> >The compensation claim demands damages for 3,478 Cubans killed and 2,099
> >disabled as a result of "sabotage, bombings and other hostile terrorist
> >acts" caused by hostile U.S. government policy toward Cuba following the
> >1959 revolution.
> >Lawyers will present declassified U.S. intelligence documents from the
> >period registering plans by the U.S. security services to destabilize the
> >government and overthrow President Fidel Castro.
> >This strategy was intensified by the Helms-Burton and Torricelli Acts. Track
> >1 of the Torricelli Act strengthened the illegal blockade. Track 2 funds
> >"non governmental organizations" such as the so-called "Friends of Cuban
> >Libraries" (sic) formed by Robert Kent and Jorge Sanguinetty." (see
> >http://www.libr.org/CLSG/blockade.html)
> >
> >For the benefit of anyone who is still interested, another strand of this
> >policy was US support (food, guns and money supplied through camps in
> >Thailand after the Vietnamese-led liberation) for the genocidal maniacs of
> >the Khmer Rouge, because although unquestionably monstrous they were
> >hostile
> >to the wicked commie Vietnamese. The American-backed Khmer Rouge turned
> >the
> >National Library of Cambodia "into a pigsty after killing its librarians and
> >burning and mutilating 90 per cent of the books)." (Heroes, John Pilger.
> >Vintage, 2001. p457).
> >
> >If, as he claims, Mr Kent's campaign is not political (the standard
> >declaimer of the right), will he call upon his government to end the
> >blockade and lead an international relief effort for Cuba, so that Cuban
> >libraries and citizens can afford to buy the books and computers he purports
> >to wish them to have? I think not.
> >
> >Aran Lewis
>
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