In United States, critics affirm failure of anti-Cuba policy

WASHINGTON, D.C.
May 25
Denounce latest report by so-called Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba

Representatives of social groups and political science institutions affirmed the failure of U.S. policy, according to an EFE dispatch from the U.S. capital.

At a joint news conference, members of the Center for International Policy (CIP), the Latin American Working Group, the Washington Office on Latin America, Church World Service and the National Council of the Churches of Christ, criticized Washington’s interference in Cuban matters, and its predictable attempt to reinforce those measures.

This criticism comes on the eve of the publication of a new report by the so-called Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, an interventionist monster created by President Bush at the urging of former Batista dictatorship collaborators who hope to regain the assets they stole until 1959.

No recommendation or punitive measure that the commission might propose or that the government decides to implement will make the regime of Fidel Castro fall, affirmed Wayne Smith, a CIP expert and former officer of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana

In his opinion, any proposals by that commission “will have no vital effect,” just as the ones proposed in 2004 failed to do so.

The so-called Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba proposed at the time new restrictions on travel to the island for Cubans resident in the United States and made it harder to send remittances.

The U.S. State Department is expected to release a second report by the commission in a few days, which is expected to include a series of recommendations on how Washington can influence the Cuban people.

According to government sources quoted in the U.S. media, the new report will not include any “drastic” measures, but it will contain suggestions on intensifying the U.S. blockade on the island.

It is very likely that they will be proposals as “unreal” as the previous, and that will only serve to aggravate the suffering of the Cuban people, according to a joint press release by the social organizations that reject U.S. policy on Cuba.

Cuba is far from being isolated and there is no sign that its economy is on the verge of collapse, the press release says.