March 29, 2024

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Santiago de Cuba Declaration: A worthy response to a farce

58 years ago – on July 26, 1964 – the Cuban people freely expressed their revolutionary message by approving the Declaration of Santiago de Cuba, during the central event of the National Day of Rebellion held in the heroic eastern city, and in response to a hostile and passionate response. Interfering with the actions and measures taken by the Organization of American States (OAS) against the island, five days ago.

The people of Santiago, after hearing the proposal of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, were once again shaken and cheered on behalf of all their compatriots, as before with the First and Second Declarations of Havana and in other accords that reflected support for the prosperous march of revolution since January 1, 1959.

The first declaration of Havana, approved on September 2, 1960, and the second declaration, also lauded on February 4, 1962, in the massive and combative aid works in the then Plaza Civica José Martí, reveal in the eyes of history the early aggressiveness and betrayal of the Organization of States America, which always responded to the interests of the empire.

In 1964, new defects of the Colonial Department, announced in a declaration through a consultative meeting with the region’s foreign ministers, led to the severing of diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba, to which they added agreements that defined the suspension. Trade exchange and maritime transport between its members and the State of Antilles. He did not rule out that this fence and isolation would lead to a new armed incursion.

The usual blackmail and pressure in the persuasive methods of the United States did not have the full effect they intended, though they later did with most governments of Latin America and the Caribbean, with the worthy exception of Mexico, the sister nation which kept its embassy in Havana.

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in interrupted formDuring the revolutionary action on July 26 in Santiago de Cuba, Fidel presented to the people the details of the ninth meeting of the self-proclaimed Organization of American States against Cuba. He talked about pressure from the United States and that only Mexico, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia did not vote for those sanctions. As is known, only then can the known supervisor exception be preserved.

Fidel Castro referred to the false declaration of the Cuban people made by the then Organization of American States, which demonized the revolutionary process as a dictatorship that abandoned the Christian and democratic traditions of the American nations, while recognizing their right to act accordingly.

After putting the neo-colonial offensive and maneuver into context, the Cuban leader proposed to the people of Santiago, in response, a 12-point declaration. After reading it he said:

“So this is the declaration, which we present to the people’s eyes, so that it may be promulgated as the Declaration of Santiago de Cuba, in a worthy response to that farce, that comedy, that appears, that maneuver of our enemies.”

The text summarized that it was ironic and unprecedented for the perpetrators to come together to judge and punish the victim for their actions. The reality was that the United States, in collusion with the governments of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and others, had brought thousands of weapons and tons of explosives into Cuba to encourage sabotage and overthrow the revolution, the leader noted.

And even more so, because “… on the territory of the United States, and in the army of that same country, as well as in the territories of Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica and other countries of the Caribbean basin, thousands of soldiers were organized and trained. Mercenaries were used and are still used in acts of aggression against Cuba ” , added in the ad.

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We quote again the historical text, in its point 4: “(…) As is known by world public opinion, the Playa Géron campaign was organized from the bases in those countries, which cost the Cuban people more than a hundred lives and enormous material losses, and carried out Dozens of pirate attacks by sea and air, from bases in those countries, with impunity against the ports, population centers and economic establishments of Cuba.”

Likewise, the supporting elements were provided that the CIA had introduced hundreds of specially trained agents into the national territory to carry out acts of sabotage and other acts of sabotage, such as the killing of teachers, young literacy teachers, humble workers, and peasants. . , in fierce and brutal reprisals against the revolutionary people.

Thousands of provocations have hitherto included the killing of one soldier and wounding of two others by bullets fired from the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuban territory occupied by the United States government by force.

The violations of the airspace by US military aircraft, in flagrant violation of the most basic rules of international law, were also denounced.

And it ends: “(…) the people of Cuba repudiate the brazen threats of armed aggression contained in that infamous document and warn that shooting at close range a defenseless people, as happened in Panama, is not the same as an armed invasion and the will of the people to shed their last drop of blood in defense. about home.”

The Declaration of Santiago de Cuba demonstrated Cuba’s conviction that the workers and peasants of the oppressed peoples of the continent, whose governments voted against the island, would know how to reveal themselves at that time and throw their followers and sell their country into the sea, which is something. Far from the expected consequences of the call of the imperial document to provoke the Cuban counter-revolution.

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Cuba will always support the just struggle of the long-suffering brothers of the continent.

Looking today at the events in the region in recent times and even the setbacks that occurred at the last Summit of the Americas, these words can since then be right: “Appeal against appeal! -Fidel said- and we will see who is right. We will see which side history stands on , whether on their side or on ours; we will see if they can destroy the revolution, or the peoples will abolish reaction and imperialism.”

There is no doubt that on July 26, 1964 he was faithful to the fighting and courageous lineage of the hospitable children of that land and the heroes of the centenary generation, who had not let the Messenger die since 1953. In Santiago de Cuba the spirit of Cuba and the center of the revolution, as so many times, were anew raised in the An unstoppable march. And all the Cubans were the same.