[NYTr] Attempt to Isolate Cuba Another Failure for the Empire
 
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:42:10 -0500 (CDT)


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Attempt to Isolate Cuba, Another Failure for the Empire

By Angel Rodriguez Alvarez
AIN Special Service

In the broad spectrum of aggressive measures carried
out by the United States against the Cuban Revolution,
efforts to politically and diplomatically isolate the
island have been prioritized by Washington's foreign
policy for over 48 years.

Washington's activities in the early 1960s were
intense and systematic, with the objective of causing
Cuba's isolation within the Latin American community
of nations.

During the 8th Consultative Meeting of Foreign
Ministers of the Organization of American States, held
in January 1962, the White House managed to have Cuba
separated from the regional entity, with the absurd
explanation that Marxism-Leninism was "incompatible
with the Inter-American system."

Particularly insulting was the open purchase of the
vote of Haitian dictator Francoise Duvalier, necessary
to fulfil the requirement of having two thirds of the
votes to adopt the agreement.

In the following weeks, the countries of the area with
the honourable exception of Mexico broke off
diplomatic relations with Havana, including Bolivia,
Chile and Uruguay who did not vote in favour of the
resolution, but finally gave in to pressure and obeyed
the dictates of the US State Department.

Far from interrupting its ties with the nations, Cuba
increased its relationships and nothing stopped Havana
from executing its solidarity policy above the
official and formal ties.

An example of this conduct was the aid offered to
Peru, after the catastrophic earthquake in 1970.  Cuba
offered the unconditional aid of over 100,000 blood
donations and the assistance of several medical
brigades.

Cuba's resistance to aggression, slander and
Washington's economic blockade against the island; its
constant denunciations of the empire's looting of
Third World nations and its consequent solidarity have
deserved international recognition.

Despite US pressure on other governments, parties and
different international organizations, for which
various US administrations have dedicated hundreds of
millions of dollars and the efforts of a number of
officials, in particular Caleb Mc Carry, designated by
George W. Bush as the so called Coordinator for a
transition, Cuba maintains diplomatic relations with
181 of the 192 UN member nations.

The allegedly isolated Cuba has 120 embassies in 116
countries and 4 international organizations and
presides, for a second time, over the Movement of Non
Aligned Countries made up by 118 countries.

The diplomatic missions accredited in Havana have
reached 102, twenty five percent more than existed 15
years ago.

Over 42,000 Cuban civilian workers in the health
sector, education and sports are cooperating in 101
regions in the world; some 47,000 young people from
130 countries have graduated from universities on the
island; while another 30,000 from 120 places all over
the world are currently studying various different
specialties in Cuba.

Of the total number of university graduates 32,000 are
from Africa.

All of the graduates have returned to their country of
origin and as Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque
recently assured: "We have not stolen any talent, we
have helped in training them and making sure they
return to their homeland."

Despite the desperate efforts of the Oval Office, Cuba
was elected a full member of the recently constituted
UN Human Rights Council, which has just suspended the
representations of the petitioner on the issue related
to Cuba.  For years, Washington attempted to discredit
the island with its manipulations in the former
commission.

Over four decades after the embarrassing agreement of
the Organization of American States, linked to
Washington's attempts to diplomatically isolate the
island with its economic blockade, Cuba is among the
least isolated nation in the world.

       
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