Workers step up solidarity in face of the US embargo – The Militant

Workers step up solidarity in face of the US embargo – The Militant

[....] Efforts to recover from the blackout and hurricane are “a major task given the economic and financial conditions the country is living through due to the tightened blockade against Cuba and the inclusion of our country on the State Sponsors of Terrorism List,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said in an Oct. 21 national address.

By putting Cuba on this outrageous list, Washington threatens sharp sanctions on companies and banks around the world that trade with or facilitate credit to Cuba. This drastically restricts Cuba’s ability to purchase food, medical supplies, fuel, equipment and spare parts, magnifying shortages of basic goods and crippling transportation and other services.

The U.S. rulers, however, continue to underestimate the capacities of Cuba’s working people. Cardet, the retired Holguín teacher and staunch partisan of the revolution mentioned earlier, pointed with pride to a message circulated by one of her former students.

“I suffer the effects of the blackouts like anyone else,” he said. “But you know, I don’t feel like blaming Díaz-Canel or the government. I don’t feel like banging pots in the street,” as opponents of the revolution urge Cubans to do. “In any case, I would bang a pot to demand the blockade be lifted and that we be removed from the list that prevents Cuba from obtaining hard currency.

“In short, I don’t feel like ceasing to believe in the people who go out every day — despite the blackout — to teach, to cure patients, to produce.”