NEW YORK — Opponents of Washington’s six-decade-long economic war against Cuba will march and rally here Oct. 28 and in other cities worldwide that week.
The actions are being organized to draw attention to the Nov. 2-3 U.N. General Assembly vote on a resolution presented by Cuba’s revolutionary government that calls for an end to “the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba.” The U.N. has voted 30 times in a row to condemn the blockade.
The march and rally in New York is sponsored by the International U.S.-Cuba Normalization Conference Coalition and the New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition. Organizers are demanding an “end to the blockade against Cuba,” to “take Cuba off Washington’s list of state sponsors of terrorism” and an “end to all U.S. anti-Cuba economic and travel sanctions.” Demonstrators will gather at noon at 47th Street and Broadway.
“Despite the fact that the U.S. government’s bipartisan anti-Cuba campaign isn’t very popular, even in U.S. public opinion, it continues and deepens under the Biden administration, leading to a deepening impact upon the lives of Cuban working people,” Ike Nahem, a leader of the Cuba Sí Coalition, told the Militant.
During a weeklong visit for meetings at the U.N. in September, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel told the General Assembly, “For more than 60 years Cuba has suffered from a suffocating economic blockade, conceived to depress its income and standard of living, to make it endure continued shortages of food, medicine and other basic goods and restrict its possibilities of development.”
It’s “a cruel, silent, extraterritorial economic war,” he said. “It’s accompanied by a powerful machine of political destabilization, with multi-million-dollar funds approved by the U.S. Congress with the aim of capitalizing on the shortages caused by the blockade to undermine the constitutional order of the country.”
The U.S. rulers have never forgiven the Cuban people for overthrowing the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship and, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, carrying out the first socialist revolution in the Americas. Since then, every U.S. president — Democrat and Republican alike — has tried to overturn the revolution.
For more information on the actions, contact: US-CubaNormalization.org or CubaSiNYNJCoalition.org. Or email: u.n.voteoncuba@us-cubanormalization.org