AOC blames Cuban suffering on US “contributions”, parroting Black Lives Matter

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., broke her silence Thursday on the anti-communist and pro-freedom protests that erupted in Cuba by attributing in part the suffering of “everyday people” to the historical legacy of the United States 60- year-old embargo.

“We are seeing Cubans rising up and protesting for their rights like never before. We stand in solidarity with them and condemn the anti-democratic actions carried out by President Daz-Canel,” the self-proclaimed democratic socialist said in a statement.

She called the suppression by the communist governments of the media, speeches and demonstrations “gross violations of civil rights”.

But she then referred to the United States’ “contribution” to what is turning out to be Cuba’s worst crisis in decades.

“We must also name the American contribution to Cuban suffering: our sixty-year-old embargo,” she said.

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His comments came after Black Lives Matter issued a statement also blaming the US embargo for the country’s instability and credited the Cuban government with historically granting asylum to “black revolutionaries.”

The BLM called on the United States to lift the sanctions which are “a cruel and inhumane policy, instituted with the explicit intention of destabilizing the country and undermining the right of Cubans to choose their own government, is at the heart of the crisis. current Cuba ”.

Like Ocasio-Cortez, other Democrats have repeated Cuba’s own talking points of Communist governments, blaming the United States rather than the Communist government for their plight. Many have called on President Joe Biden to end the decades-long embargo on the country.

Anti-government protesters gather at the Maximo Gomez monument in Havana, Cuba on Sunday, July 11, 2021. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in several cities in Cuba to protest against food shortages and high food prices. (PA)

The United States imposed the embargo after Fidel Castro overthrew the United States-backed Batista regime in 1959. Since then, the presidential administrations have renewed the embargo, which aims to isolate Cuba economically and diplomatically.

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Former President Barack Obama tried to normalize relations with Cuba during his second term. These policies were reversed under President Donald Trump, who imposed new sanctions.

Last month, the United States voted against a UN resolution that overwhelmingly condemned the US economic embargo on Cuba for the 29th year.

Ocasio-Cortez called the embargo “cruel absurdity,” adding that “like too many other US policies targeting Latin Americans, cruelty is the bottom line.”

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“I categorically reject the Biden administration’s defense of the embargo. It is never acceptable that we use cruelty as leverage against everyday people,” she wrote.

Andrew Kugle of Fox News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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