OMNI
DEFENDING CUBA Newsletter #9
October 24, 2021
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and
Ecology
Omnicenter.org/donate/
CONTENTS #9,
US AGAINST CUBA
Vijay Prashad, Imperialism v. Humanity
Cuba in China’s “Belt and Road Energy” Alliance
Cuba v. Covid-19
UPJ, Stop US Regime Change Subversion of
Cuba
Anniversary of Murder of Che Guevara,
New Book by Ratner and Smith
Florida’s Gov. Awards Medal of Freedom
to Che’s Assassin
John Ross, World Mobilizes v. US
Mistreatment of Cuba
Aaron Maté, US v. Cuba’s
Anti-Imperialism
Cuban Scientists Write Biden on Covid-19
Supporting Cuban Sovereignty
Max Blumenthal, Cultural
Counter-Revolution in Cuba from US
Bill Hackworth, US State Dept. Criticism
of Cuba on Human Rights
Vijay Prashad, US Behind Regime Change
Drive
CIA Plans to Bomb Miami and Blame Cuba
Open Letter to Biden from Let Cuba Live
Global Protest: Hands Off Cuba, from
ANSWER Coalition
Amishe Parikh-Friese, End the Embargo
Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores, End
the Blockade
Alan MacLeod, Expose Western Media Propaganda
v. Cuba
Cyber Attack on Cuban Foreign Ministry
US Behind Cuba Protest
MEDICC Calls for Humanitarian Policy
Toward Cuba
Contents of #8
TEXTS July-October
2021
The great contest of our time is between humanity and
imperialism: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2021)
Vijay Prashad mronline (7-31-21)
Cuba: hell, purgatory and paradise
Editor.
Mronline.org (7-23-21)
The United States was never satisfied with
having lost the Cuba subjected to its ambitions. Therefore, shortly after the
victory of the guerrillas of the Sierra Maestra, they tried to invade the
island with mercenary troops. They were defeated in April 1961. The following
year, President Kennedy decreed the blockade of Cuba, which continues to this
day.
On 23 July 2021, a full-page appeal appeared
in the New York Times calling on
United States President Joe Biden to withdraw the vindictive U.S. blockade
against Cuba.
Cuba now part of China’s ‘Belt and Road Energy’
alliance
Editor.
Mronline.org (10-24-21).
Cuba joined the Alliance for Energy of the
Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a project to build an international
mega-platform for cooperation and exchange under the principle of shared
profit.
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Eyewitness report: Cuba’s scientists, medical
workers advance fight vs. COVID Editor. Mronline.org (10-22-21) After a
serious rise in Cuba of illnesses and deaths from COVID-19 during the summer,
there are encouraging developments with a steady recovery and downward curve
in illnesses and deaths.
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Stop
Funding Regime Change in Cuba!
United for Peace and Justice, 10-19-21
As corporate politicians try to nickel and
dime us out of social services, the funds for war and regime change never seem
to dry up. Every year the U.S. spends our tax money on finding new ways to try
to undermine the Cuban government. Whether it’s fake HIV prevention workshops
designed to radicalize and recruit youth, promoting anti-government hip-hop
artists, flying a “propaganda plane” over Cuba that reaches almost no one,
backing Spanish-language anti-government websites and other media based in
Florida, or tightening the blockade during a pandemic to make people desperate,
the U.S. has pumped hundreds of millions into regime change. Take action to
STOP funding regime change in Cuba!
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This
weekend marked the anniversary of the death of Che Guevara.
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Florida’s Republican Governor awards Medal of Freedom
to Che Guevara’s assassin. Editor. Mronline.org (10-9-21).
After Rodriguez ordered Che be shot, his
hands were chopped off and shipped to Langley, but not before he stole the
Rolex from Che’s corpse that was meant for the son of one of his compatriots in
Bolivia. 
World mobilises against the U.S. on Cuba–including China
John Ross.
Mronline.org (8-22-21).
Cuba is a small country. But because it
became in 1959 the first country in the Western hemisphere to thoroughly break
with U.S. domination, and embark on a path of national independence, events
concerning Cuba have a geopolitical significance many times greater than its
size. Present events show that this continues to be the case.
U..S suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious
anti-imperialism at great cost by Aaron
Maté. Mronline.org (8-20-21).
Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped
end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide.
Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has
terrorized the island nation through today.
Cuban scientists pen letter to Biden rejecting ‘failed state’ claim. Editor. Mronline.org (8-17-21)
A broad representation of Cuban scientists will address
a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden evidencing Cuba’s scientific and
political capacity to face Covid-19, in an altruistic manner, despite the
limitations of the U.S. blockade.
In support of sovereignty.
Editor. Mronline.org (8-14-21).
The dog-whistle calls of “Freedom for Cuba”
that reverberated round the world on 11 July, emanating from a mix of forces in
Cuba, which were carefully manipulated and crafted by the CIA and U.S.
anti-Cuban forces abroad, shed a great deal of light not only on U.S. foreign
policy hypocrisy but on left-wing hypocrisy and impotence, both here in Ireland
and elsewhere.
Max Blumenthal. Mronline.org (8-4-21).
Painting itself as a grassroots collective of
artists fighting for freedom of expression, the San Isidro Movement has become
a key weapon in the U.S. government’s assault on the Cuban revolution.
U.S. State Department lectures Cuba about human
rights and living conditions by Bill Hackwell. Mronline.org (8-1-21)
Today with the height of imperial arrogance
and hubris, the U.S. State Department issued a joint statement to further its
plans to destroy Cuba and all the gains it has made in health, education and
welfare.
Washington beats the drum of regime change, but Cuba
responds to its own revolutionary rhythm: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2021)
by Vijay Prashad.
Mronline.org (7-24-21).
Four days after Moïse’s assassination, Cuba
experienced a set of protests from people expressing their frustration with
shortages of goods and a recent spike of COVID-19 infections.
Watch
"CIA Considered Bombing Miami To Blame Cuba!" on YouTube
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FYI: This report is
so tragically not funny but true.
From: David Druding <daviddruding@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 6:58 PM
Subject: Watch "CIA Considered Bombing Miami To Blame Cuba!" on
YouTube
hi,
Many consider Jimmy Dore a grandstander who at times states his
opinions as facts BUT......
I find zero erroneous statements myself in this piece about
Cuba.
Max Blumenthal and Medea Benjamin, both quoted or interviewed in
the video, are well-established truth tellers exposing what United States
is doing around the world.
Great expose video ~ https://youtu.be/djj84ooaJCs
Open Letter to President Biden
Dear President Joe Biden,
7-23-21
It is time to take a new path forward in U.S.-Cuban relations.
We, the undersigned, are making this urgent, public appeal to you to reject the
cruel policies put into place by the Trump White House that have created so
much suffering among the Cuban people.
Cuba – a country of eleven million people – is living through a
difficult crisis due to the growing scarcity of food and medicine. Recent
protests have drawn the world’s attention to this. While the Covid-19 pandemic
has proven challenging for all countries, it has been even more so for a small
island under the heavy weight of an economic embargo.
We find it unconscionable, especially during a pandemic, to
intentionally block remittances and Cuba’s use of global financial
institutions, given that access to dollars is necessary for the importation of
food and medicine.
As the pandemic struck the island, its people – and their
government – lost billions in revenue from international tourism that would
normally go to their public health care system, food distribution and economic
relief.
During the pandemic, Donald Trump’s administration tightened the
embargo, pushed aside the Obama opening, and put in place 243 “coercive
measures” that have intentionally throttled life on the island and created more
suffering.
The prohibition on remittances and the end of direct commercial
flights between the U.S. and Cuba are impediments to the wellbeing of a
majority of Cuban families.
“We stand with the Cuban people,” you wrote on July 12. If that is the
case, we ask you to immediately sign an executive order and annul Trump’s 243
“coercive measures.”
There is no reason to maintain the Cold War politics that
required the U.S. to treat Cuba as an existential enemy rather than a neighbor.
Instead of maintaining the path set by Trump in his efforts to undo President
Obama’s opening to Cuba, we call on you to move forward. Resume the opening and
begin the process of ending the embargo. Ending the severe shortages in food
and medicine must be the top priority.
On 23 June, most of the member states of the United Nations voted to
ask the U.S. to end the embargo. For the past 30 years this has been the
consistent position of a majority of member states. In addition, seven UN
Special Rapporteurs wrote a letter to the U.S. government in April 2020
regarding the sanctions on Cuba. “In the pandemic emergency,” they wrote, “the lack of will of the U.S.
government to suspend sanctions may lead to a higher risk of suffering in
Cuba.”
We ask you to end the Trump “coercive measures” and return to
the Obama opening or, even better, begin the process of ending the embargo and
fully normalizing relations between the United States and Cuba.SIGN THTTER
THIS WEEKEND:
Actions nationwide to demand U.S. hands off Cuba!
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END THE
EMBARGO
2 clicks
to change 60 years of failed U.S. foreign policy in Cuba by Amisha Parikh-Friese 7-22-21. 
People
in Cuba took to the streets this month because they were “done with being
hungry, unemployed, without water, without power.” Their government
responded with violence, pepper spray, arrests, and internet blackouts. At
least one person has died.
President
Biden issued a statement of support for the Cuban people, but has so far
stopped short of any meaningful action to address the U.S. foreign policy
failures that help drive this crisis.
And
this is key. Because right now, Cubans are suffering under a
decades-old U.S. trade embargo, exacerbated by additional sanctions put in
place under Trump: 240 measures that have cost Cuba $20 billion over just the
last two years. It’s clear U.S. foreign policy in Cuba has become
an impediment to people's well-being and safety.
Biden
promised to roll back Trump’s sanctions on Cuba while on the campaign trail and
now, there’s growing pressure for him to make good on his word, including from
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Gregory Meeks. We’d go even
further: The best thing the United States could do to help the Cuban
people is lift its brutal embargo and end the sanctions — and you can help.
People
in Cuba have survived in the face of U.S sanctions, in some form or another,
for nearly 60 years. That’s because — from Iran to Venezuela to Cuba, and
beyond — hawks have long, and wrongly, assumed that broad economic sanctions
will inflict such pain on the population that the people will rise up and
overthrow their government.
The
truth is: engaging in collective punishment by starving people into protest is
immoral and illegal, not to mention a complete erasure of all the work people
in Cuba have done and could be doing to create change.
When
we say Cubans, Iranians, Venezuelans should make decisions about who runs their
countries, we mean it. And that includes not having the United States trying to
force its will on people with military force — or by blocking food, medicine,
and other basic necessities with economic sanctions.
Activists
like you, Dick, may not be able to take to the streets, but you CAN demand
the United States end its brutal treatment of Cubans today.
Changing
decades of foreign policy failure won’t be easy. It’s going to take ALL of us
taking action if we’re going to turn a world of sanctions, violence, and
endless war into one filled with peace and justice.
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END THE BLOCKADE
•The
Hidden Hand of the US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests
https://www.laprogressive.com/us-blockade-sparks-cuba-protests/
Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores, LA Progressive
July 13, 2021 - Protests erupted in various Cuban cities the
weekend of July 11 over dire economic conditions and a surge in
Covid-19 cases. They are the biggest protests to hit Cuba in three
decades.
Breaking through the western media propaganda
coverage of Cuba protests by Alan MacLeod. Mronline.org (7-21-21)
While there are plenty of reasons for
ordinary Cubans to currently feel disenchanted about life on the island, there
are also strong suspicions that these protests were not quite the grassroots
uprising they were made out to be in the U.S. press.
July 19, 2021 | Newswire
Arreaza calls cyberattack on Cuban Foreign Ministry
imperial clumsiness. Editor.
Mronline.org (7-20-21)
In his Twitter account @jaarreaza, Minister
Arreaza wrote, “Another characteristic of the international incitement of
aggression against #Cuba. Imperialism is clumsy enough to leave traces of its
misdeeds.”
July 19, 2021 | Newswire
The bay of Tweets: documents point to U.S. hand in
Cuba protests by
Alan
MacLeod. Mronline.org (7-20-21).
The U.S. government can cause economic misery
for the Cuban people, but it cannot, it appears, convince them to overthrow
their government.
July 19, 2021 | Newswire
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Links to
Earlier Newsletters on Cuba
#8 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/omni-cuba-newsletter-8-july-15-2021.html
#7 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/omni-cuba-newsletter-7-july-3-2021.html
#6 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/02/omni-cuba-newsletter-6.html
CONTENTS
#8
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/omni-cuba-newsletter-8-july-15-2021.html
Cuban
President Diaz-Canel Describes What’s Covered Up by US
Corporate Media
STOP THE
US BLOCKADE/EMBARGO/SANCTIONS, NO
ARMED INTERVENTION:
ANSWER
UNAC
IFCO
CODEPINK
Jacobin Magazine
De Los
Santos. US Leaders and Mainstream Media
Blame Cuba’s
Economic System and Leaders, and
Cover Up Its Medical
Achievements
Examining the Looting Story
CUBAN
MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Vaccines
Phenomenal
Health Care
RELATED
Canada’s
Trade with Cuba Despite US Embargo.
US
Accusation of Cuban Human Trafficking Called a Lie by Cuba.
LINKS TO
PRECEDING 7 NEWSLETTERS
END CUBA
NEWSLETTER #9
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