In a statement at the reach of Prensa Latina, they emphasized that the US blockade “continues to strangle the daily lives of millions of families,” while many remain silent or normalize an injustice that has lasted for more than 60 years.

They urged people not to remain indifferent to a policy that transcends ideological debates, as it manifests itself in undelivered medicine, banks closing their doors for fear of sanctions, children waiting for medical technology that is not authorized, and the elderly suffering from deliberately created shortages.

“This economic violence has a clear guilty one. It is not abstract, it is not ambiguous, it is not ‘on both sides.’ It has an executioner: the United States government, which maintains a policy designed to subdue an entire people through hunger and destitution. That is the truth that many do not dare to name. And without truth, there is no dignity,” the document stated.

Faced with this “outrage,” they called on every Cuban, wherever they may be, to defend the families of the Caribbean nation from “the most prolonged economic punishment in contemporary history.”

“Diversity of opinion is no excuse for indifference. Criticism is no excuse for passivity,” while urging everyone “not to allow the executioners to hide behind speeches of ‘freedom’ or ‘democracy’ while they violate the fundamental rights of an entire nation,” and to take a stand for Cuba.

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