It would be untrue not to acknowledge that more than 80% of the Cuban population today has lived in a blockaded nation, whose main perpetrator has ignored, for more than three decades, the continuous demands of the international community at the UN to end this genocidal policy.
Dreams of progress as a country, personal goals, and collective aspirations have been thwarted for more than 60 years due to the comprehensive machinery of an undeclared war against the economy, society, and daily life of the largest of the Antilles.
"The damage that these measures cause to the population's standard of living is not accidental or the result of collateral effects; it is the result of a deliberate intention to punish the Cuban people as a whole," said the leader of the Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, in 2021, knowing that although it is "proclaimed" that this tool of genocidal pressure is directed at the government, its effects are not limited to the sanctioned state.
Even though the island has publicly denounced the challenges of its blocked economy, the intensification of new and systematic sanctions has persisted, making unilateral coercive measures a flagrant violation of human rights.
Like Cuba, other nations whose example of self-determination seems to instill fear in the empire have also been victims of this modern form of violence.
The world knows this, and recognized it last June when the UN General Assembly declared December 4 as the International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures, so that the date serves not only to denounce this crime, but also to demand its immediate cessation and promote alternatives that prioritize peoples over geopolitical interests.
