A-Infos (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria #470 - CUBA. Under the Himeralist Noose (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On Thursday, June 11, a delegation of biologists, chemical engineers, 
and biomedical scientists from the FINLAY Institute in Cuba held a 
public meeting at the Cre.Zi.Plus facility at the Cantieri Culturali 
della Zisa in Palermo. The meeting was organized as part of the 
collaboration between the CNR (National Research Council) and the FINLAY 
Institute in vaccinology and the fight against pandemics. The FINLAY 
Institute has been at the forefront of combating the COVID-19 pandemic, 
developing vaccines, such as SOBERANA, which have protected the health 
of the Cuban population. One of the fundamental principles of the Cuban 
revolution was free access to healthcare for the entire population, 
creating a world-class medical facility.
The FINLAY delegation, in addition to presenting the institute's 
scientific work, focused on the critical moment Cuba is experiencing, 
both economically and politically.
Today, healthcare in Cuba is on the brink of collapse, and the situation 
is deteriorating dramatically and rapidly. Under the Trump 
administration, the economic and trade blockade has become more 
stringent, and the healthcare sector has felt the brunt of it. Essential 
and life-saving medicines are no longer available. Infant deaths have 
risen 100%, and the shortage of medicines and the raw materials needed 
to produce them is causing a health crisis unprecedented in scale. The 
economic blockade imposed by the United States since the early 1960s has 
now become total under the Trump doctrine.
Electricity is supplied for only one hour after a 26-hour interval. The 
cold chain virtually ceases to exist, with laboratories shut down.
The United States, in addition to blocking energy supplies to the 
Caribbean island, is forcing companies with economic and commercial 
relations with Cuba to leave the island by June of this year. The 
tourism sector, a primary source of income for the Cuban economy, has 
been abandoned by foreign partners. Disastrous consequences are expected.
The US administration, in addition to blocking goods and energy, has 
ordered international banks to sever all financial relations with Cuban 
banks. Among the countries that have severed banking relations with 
Cuba, obeying the US diktat, are Russia, China, and the BRICS countries. 
So much for "anti-imperialist solidarity."
Cuba today is more isolated than ever, and no one is coming to its aid. 
The North American plan is clear: economically strangle the Caribbean 
country, drive it into bankruptcy, and incite popular rebellion to 
justify military intervention with the goal of regime change. Trump 
wants to liquidate Castro's Cuba before the presidential elections to 
secure a result that US administrations have been pursuing for decades. 
This is with the silent complicity of Putin and Xi Jinping.
We can be critical of the Cuban revolution, its history, its subservient 
relationship with the Soviet Union, its one-party regime, and its 
repressive climate toward internal dissent. But today we cannot stand by 
and watch as the noose of the US blockade tightens ever more tightly, 
cutting off the lifeblood of a country that for 67 years has sought to 
build an alternative to free itself from the North American yoke.

Renato Franzitta

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