Last month, Cuban regime hooligans ruthlessly beat up the pro-democracy activist Jose Daniel Ferrer in a state prison in Santiago de Cuba. His wife and two children witnessed this crime.. And when Ferrer’s young daughter tried to protect her father, officers also abused the girl. This is not an isolated case. For years, Ferrer was treated cruelly and inhumanely simply for speaking out against the Cuban dictatorship.
Tragically, the repressions against Ferrer, his family or the more than 1,000 Cubans unjustly imprisoned simply for speaking out.
These are not the actions of a “government” seeking greater openness and good faith engagement. These are the actions of criminals interested only in self-preservation. They are individuals who routinely use violence to repress, intimidate and silence those who dare to challenge the illegitimate regime. And yet there are people in the Biden administration falsely arguing for weaker sanctions and a stronger “commitment” to dictatorship.
While the US Departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security. conducted a “dialogue” with the Cuban regime, Former Obama-era White House officials are doing everything in their power to reverse the sane policies of the era President Trump. His ultimate goal is to have the sanctions lifted and Cuba removed from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. That would be a great victory for the regime and would show that the pro-socialist ideologues in the White House have learned nothing from their past mistakes.
if the President Barack Obama attempted to appease the Cuban regime, the result was, from an objective point of view, a total failure. If anything, the repression has worsened during the Obama presidency. Political prisoners released under a deal were re-arrested a few months later. In the meantime, The gains from increased trade and travel to the island enriched the elite of the Communist Party and the military, not the Cuban people.
None of this came as a surprise to those of us who know the story of the Castro brothers and their puppet. Miguel Diaz-Canel. From experience we know that they use every gesture of goodwill from the international community as an opportunity to increase their control and power. Hence the activist Jorge Luis Garcia Perez (Antunez) He called the Obama administration’s actions a “betrayal of the Cuban people’s quest for freedom.”
Then, Why do Biden administration officials insist on repeating these actions once again? For the same reason, they want to normalize relations with the Venezuelan drug dictator and be diplomatic towards the Chinese Communist Party. Everything is based on globalist economic theory and influenced by Marxist sympathies, which assume that “compromise” with dictators and the opening of markets will lead to universal freedom and prosperity.
History reflects the opposite. If we soothe relations with Cuba, we lose the tools we need to prevent another wave of repression against the likes of Ferrer, Las Ladies in whitethe San Isidro Movement and other dissenting voices. We must not forget that we are dealing with criminals using this Illegal migration as a weapon against the USwho support international drug terrorists like the ELN and the FARCand that they remain a staunch ally of the US’s greatest adversaries, including Nicaragua, the Maduro regime, Iran, North Korea, Russia and China.
President Biden must not raise his Sanctions against the dictatorship of Cuba nor remove it from the List of government sponsors of terrorism. There are real ways the US can help the Cuban people, such as providing access to uncensored web and broadcasts from the United States and the punishment of human rights violators, including the Cuban army, and we continue to campaign for this Hundreds of political prisoners then wrongly imprisoned July 11, 2021 protests.
The path of “compromise” with Cuba’s criminal dictatorship will not help either the Cuban people or the United States. On the contrary, the appeasement of the Cuban regime will only embolden and enrich the oppressors.