Solidarity groups opposed to the United States blockade of Cuba called today for the Miami Caravan on February 27, an initiative that will echo in other cities of the country and the world.
According to the call, those who join the day will leave from the city hall of that city in the state of Florida at noon in dozens of vehicles that will sound their horns and will be adorned with signs and allegorical flags.
“We will carry our message through the main streets of this city,” expressed the message spread on social networks.
The caravan, as part of the construction of Puentes de Amor -he added- calls for the reopening of consular services at the United States embassy in Havana to promote visas and family reunification programs.
“We have been asking for the resumption of our right to send remittances to the family in Cuba. We have been calling for travel to major cities in Cuba to be expanded. We ask for greater medical collaboration in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic”, the call underlined.
Solidarity action organizers welcomed the Joe Biden administration’s announcement of the forthcoming resumption of those services as a sign that it is feeling the pressure of lawsuits.
“But all the air has gone out of this balloon! Once again, we are told to wait while Washington ‘studies’ the problem. We do not want to wait!”, the text pointed out.
They reiterated, in turn, that enough is enough, since they do not want to see Cuban families “suffering the prolonged effects of the tightening of the blockade against them at a time when simple decency demands more scientific collaboration in the fight against Covid-19. ”.
The Miami Caravan urged to join “this peaceful and legal action that unites all those who reject this hostile policy regardless of their other political opinions.”
Executive Order 3447 signed on February 3, 1962 by then Democratic President John F. Kennedy gave legal effect to an economic, commercial and financial blockade that began much earlier.
Its most immediate antecedent was the secret memorandum from Lester Mallory, Undersecretary of State in the Dwight Eisenhower administration (1953-1961).
In the document of April 6, 1960, Mallory advised depriving Cuba “of money and supplies, to reduce its financial resources and real wages, cause hunger, despair and the overthrow of the Government”, a line that remains unchanged six decades later. .
During his term, Republican Donald Trump (2017-2021) reinforced the blockade with 243 coercive measures still in force with Biden, his Democratic successor.
