Open Letter To CARICOM Heads Of Government: We Must Support Cuba Now

By David Abdulah\The Assembly of Caribbean People  On Thursday March 21, the Regional Executive Committee (REC) of the Assembly of Caribbean People (ACP) met virtually for several hours. The meeting was well attended with members from Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago. The REC discussed a number of issues, including: The crisis in Haiti. We have already communicated our position on Haiti to you in several Open Letters and through the Declaration that we issued on March 9th and which we shared with you. The Regional Executive Committee received from the Haitian Chapter of the ACP a further update and analysis of the crisis in Haiti; The situation in Cuba. The members of the Cuban Chapter of the Assembly provided a report on the very challenging problems that the Government of Cuba and its citizens are facing, especially with respect to the fuel shortages that are resulting in significant electricity blackouts; and also shortages of some food items inclusive of milk for children. This situation is the direct result of the cumulative impacts of the decades-old blockade by the United States and the false designation by the US of Cuba as being involved in “state...