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Judi Lynn

(162,344 posts) Tue Sep 5, 2023, 02:06 PM Sep 2023

French deputy addresses in book US war against Cuba

Paris, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) The communist leader and French deputy André Chassaigne today considered his book "Cuba a star in the night" an opportunity to know the war that Cuba faces against the United States with the blockade as a spearhead.
September 5, 2023
12:24

It is a book that takes sides with the Cuban people in their struggle against a criminal blockade and at the same time has an educational value, because many people still think that Washington’s siege no longer exists, the president of the France-Cuba Friendship Group of the National Assembly commented in an interview with Prensa Latina.

According to the deputy for the central department of Puy-de-Dôme, the text shows that contrary to what not a few believe, the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed to Cuba more than six decades ago has been intensified, after the measures adopted by Donald Trump (2017-2021), maintained by his successor in the White House, Joseph Biden.

It is a war without weapons, an unspeakable war of U.S. imperialism against the Cuban Revolution, and above all against a people to colossally attack its economic development, he warned.

Chassaigne stressed that his book also addresses the extraterritorial component of the blockade, expressed through laws and executive decisions with an impact on banks, companies and citizens of Europe and other continents.

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French deputy addresses in book US war against Cuba (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2023 OP

Not only imperialism, but anti hispanic bigotry too. Marcus IM Sep 2023 #1

Unbearably true, Marcus IM! Judi Lynn Sep 2023 #2

Marcus IM

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1. Not only imperialism, but anti hispanic bigotry too.

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Tue Sep 5, 2023, 02:10 PM

Sep 2023

Seemingly not much of interest when it come to US/LatAm relations.

America has a long history in the Latin Americas and Caribbean. Little of it is good.

Judi Lynn

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2. Unbearably true, Marcus IM!

Reply to Marcus IM (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 5, 2023, 02:45 PM

Sep 2023

US school kids are "educated" to imagine nothing south of the border really matters, except for the tropical fruit and natural resources US companies get there, like the nation's general store.

Avocados! Yum! Chocolate! Yum! Bananas! Yum! Sugar! Yum! Tobacco! Cough! Potatoes! Corn! Lithium! Copper! Emeralds! Oil!

As for the people, everyone already read what US government officials thought of them in the 19th century. As written by the US Undersecretary of War, J. C. Breckenridge, on Christmas Eve, in 1897:

. . . The inhabitants are generally indolent and apathetic. As for their learning, they range from the most refined to the most vulgar and abject. Its people are indifferent to religion, and the majority are therefore immoral and simultaneously they have strong passions and are very sensual. Since they only possess a vague notion of what is right and wrong, the people tend to seek pleasure not through work, but through violence. As a logical consequence of this lack of morality, there is a great disregard for life.

http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/bmemo.htm

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