Imperialism really believed those who had bet on socialism had no more reserves left. Euphoric for having blown up the socialist camp in Eastern Europe, it fixed its eyes on the thorn in its side in the Caribbean since January 1959.
It was the ideal moment to call for the surrender, the surrender of the ideals for which more than a generation of Cubans had fought for; all it needed was the final blow. That was how imperialism thought.
The northern country wanted to materialize it very enthusiastically by proposing at the U.S. Congress on October 23, 1992, an act that would supposedly provide "independence" to Cuba, just as the Platt Amendment “did” in 1901.
The main purpose of such law, known as the Cuban Democracy Act or the Torricelli Act, was to destroy the Revolution by employing two fundamental means: economic strangulation, by preventing trade with other countries, and support for political subversion within the island.
To this end, they established the prohibition of the right of subsidiary companies in third countries to trade with Cuban companies. It also prohibited ships that had been in ports of the archipelago from docking in U.S. ports for a period of 180 days.
According to their vision, they would maintain democracy by supporting mercenary groups inside Cuba, which were to represent civil society organizations, in which they would invest numerous resources to subvert the internal order of the country.
Both ways complement each other because they besiege and demonize any type of economic or financial relationship of the nation, in order to create an image of inefficiency of the attacked State.
In this context, the groups created and financed by agencies of the aggressor State would take advantage of to promote protests, sabotage and acts of vandalism. By promoting chaos, they would use the pretext of violation of human rights or lack of democracy, and they would have the international media and opinion to back their claims so the desired military intervention, the real objective of this law, would be approved. Any resemblance with the current reality is not just a coincidence.
The White House's legal atrocity disregarded the right of the Cuban State, replacing it with the category of people, a deliberate manipulation throughout the document. It is interfering, it makes an act of war such as the blockade international, an act that is typified as genocide in itself.
Furthermore, it disregards the economic, commercial and international law recognized in the founding documents of the United Nations.
Thirty years after its enactment, its content is part of other attempts with the same objective, such as the Helms Burton Act, Obama's "smart power," or the 243 measures Trump announced to intensify the blockade, a policy maintained by the Biden administration.
All of them have something in common: they are bound to fail because they do not understand that the Cuban Revolution is one of a kind.
"Our plan has been to teach us in our height, to squeeze us, to join together, to outwit him (the enemy), to finally make our homeland free," as Martí taught us. Truth and ethics are the basis of the Revolution and of the people's confidence in it, no matter how hard the trials may be.
The world knows it and, I the last 30 years, the UN General Assembly recognizes it as well.
