Yet another act of aggression against Cuba

From April to December 2020, in only eight months, the telecommunications sector in Cuba suffered losses of more than 65 million dollars due to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States six decades ago.

An undeniable reality conveniently left aside by those in the United States who are calling on President Joe Biden's administration to urgently provide Internet access to Cubans.

In fact, the U.S. Senate has now approved legislation with the alleged intention of providing this service to the citizens of the Caribbean nation.

It is, as Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez describes it, another act of aggression, since everyone knows what it represents: the tools to spread false information within the island nation to create chaos, destabilization and to call for violence and hatred.

It is no secret that from U.S. territory, through social networks, unscrupulous individuals encouraged the riots of July 11th, manipulated by the Western press.

And who is behind this amendment, many might wonder?  It shouldn't be a surprise to learn that Florida Senator Marco Rubio is among the instigators.  Rubio, who was not even born in Cuba but has Cuban parents, is well known for supporting the genocidal U.S. blockade, condemned at the UN General Assembly year-after-year.  

Marco Rubio is undoubtedly a shady character who has lied time and again about the arrival of his parents to U.S. territory in an attempt to present them as persecuted by the Cuban Revolution -- when in fact they arrived in southern Florida long before January 1959.

The senator has also attacked the medical aid of Cuba to other peoples, trying to present it as human trafficking, ignoring the numerous lives saved and the gratitude of the most humble for that assistance.

Worse still, he was one of the contributors to a fund created in the city of Miami for the Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, author of the 1976 sabotage attack on a Cubana de Aviación airliner in which 73 people lost their lives.

Marco Rubio is one of the characters behind the amendment approved by the U.S. Senate, a country concerned, he says, about the situation of the Cuban people, and which paradoxically for the past six decades has tried unsuccessfully to break our will.

Many political interests and greed for profit are hidden behind the intentions of these people who apparently are unaware that since 2018, thanks to the technological advances made by the Cuban government, even in the midst of the limitations imposed by the U.S. blockade, the Internet is widely accessible throughout the Caribbean island.