“This new aggression has united us more and elevated the honor, dignity, and anti-imperialist spirit of a people already recognized around the world for their brave resistance to any form of subordination to the empire,” Díaz-Canel said.
Cuban legislator Mariela Castro, Raúl’s granddaughter, told rallygoers that “we are prepared for combat."
“No one is going to kidnap him. I can assure you of that,” she said, alluding to the US invasion and abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on dubious narco-terrorism charges earlier this year. “Neither him nor anyone else.”
"My father is very calm, watching and smiling,” Castro added. “Here, we are prepared to fight imperialism. Cuba is a small and poor country, but one with experience confronting US imperialism. We know that as long as there is an anti-imperialist revolution, there will be a gigantic and ruthless enemy.”
Critics noted the hypocrisy of the Castro indictment, given the ongoing illegal US bombing of boats that the Trump administration claims—without providing evidence—were smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
“Washington has no moral authority to judge anyone,” Gerardo Hernández, coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, said, referring to the boat-bombing campaign, which has killed nearly 200 people in close to 60 reported attacks. “Cuba is a people of peace and reaffirms its legitimate right to self-defense."
“Cuba does not constitute a threat to US security,” he continued. “On the contrary, Cuba is a state under attack by the United States.”
Observers have pointed to the decadeslong US-backed campaign of anti-Castro terrorism against the Cuban people, including the 1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455, a commercial airliner with 73 people aboard, including 11 Guyanese nationals and 24 teenage members of Cuba’s junior Olympic fencing team. Perpetrators of the attack enjoyed safe haven in the United States, mainly in Miami, where the city
celebrated a day in honor of one of the bombing’s alleged masterminds.“The Cuban people reaffirm the unwavering decision to defend their homeland and revolution," Hernández added. “With the greatest determination, they reaffirm their absolute and firm support for Army General Raúl Castro.”
Kind of a pointless argument. “Your honor, my client cannot possibly be a danger to anybody, he already threw the gun in a pond.”
“My client threw the gun in a lake 60 years ago and hasn’t threatened anyone since” is a pretty good argument, yes.
But you want the US to be the judge, jury, and executioner in that scenario?
JFC you suck at metaphors. In this analogy we are the one casting judgement in this discussion. You expect me and other readers to want the offenders freedom? Have him show a little remorse and agree to be locked out of procuring a means to harm others, that’s the absolute bare minimum, otherwise he’s gonna have a fun time being locked up “for the cause”, dehumanized by the authorities.
Maybe the US should be dragged out of the judge’s seat, since they’ve been shown to have no capacity to be an impartial judge. Stop trying to act as if the US policing the world is a normal thing or even a good thing to bow down to.
…? Bro really didn’t even read it but hit reply.
I assumed by “we” and the “authorities” you meant the US, given how you’ve been arguing this whole thread from the American point of view.
No, I really haven’t. I’ve been arguing from my point of view as a spectator.
Then, I think you need to reword some of your comments, since most of it sounds like you’re arguing from the US point of view, mostly due to the normalisation of the US as the voice of reason in this topic. From an outsider’s point of view, the US has no right to continue embargoing Cuba decades after the conflict has already ended.
Which one?