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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