It is an insult to Canadian readers to reprint in the Toronto Star a misleading article from the Miami Herald. The article headlines claims that thousands demand an end to the dictatorship in Cuba.
First there is no dictatorship in Cuba – there is an elected government at 3 levels. There may have been thousands marching, but for different reasons, not all against the government. Some of them are backed and funded by the US in an attempt to undermine their government along with simultaneous demonstrations outside Cuba. This was not simply a spontaneous protest, but an orchestrated interference in the internal affairs in Cuba – some call it a “soft coup”.
This same US government for more than 60 years has tried unsuccessfully to smother and destroy Cuba with its illegal, immoral economic and commercial blockade. Now it wants to booster dissent for the conditions of shortages of medicines and food that the blockade creates. Just last month the US Blockade was condemned for the 29th time by the United Nations General Assembly by an overwhelming vote of 184 to 2.
Canadians, unlike Americans, are allowed to travel to Cuba and have done so in the millions each year. We know the reality in Cuba, where health care and education are a right, and it is a country that sends doctors abroad, not soldiers.
In spite of the Blockade, in spite of the pandemic, in spite of having to protect is people from increasing hurricanes due to Climate change, Cuba continues its course of putting people first, not profit and warmongering.
What the Cuban people, and the world, really demands is an immediate end to the illegal, immoral US Blockade!
Please tell the truth about Cuba, not reprint articles produced by its enemies who are trying to harm its people and cause regime change.
Elizabeth Hill
209 Oakwood Ave
Toronto Ontario
416 654 7105
