Mark Burton

Ex-presidents and prime ministers of Barbados (Freundel Stuart), Dominica (Edison James), Grenada (Tillman Thomas), Guyana (Donald Ramotar), Jamaica (Bruce Golding and PJ Patterson) St. Lucia (Kenny Anthony) and Trinidad & Tobago (Keith Rowley) praised Cuba’s long-standing commitment to their Caribbean neighbours through medical brigades, educational scholarships and and disaster relief.

Blockade of Cuba is now putting lives at risk. | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blockade-cuba-now-putting-lives-risk-minister-warns

#Cuba #BloqueoNo

Blockade of Cuba is now putting lives at risk, minister warns

THE INTENSIFYING US blockade of Cuba threatens “basic human safety,” Cuban Health Minister Jose Angel Portal Miranda warned at the weekend.Decades of illegal sanctions against the socialist island have long stretched Cuba’s health system, which nevertheless boasts one of the highest life expectancies in the region and the highest doctor-to-patient ratio in the world.“You cannot damage a state’s economy without affecting its inhabitants,” Mr Portal said in an interview with Associated Press. “This situation could put lives at risk.”

Morning Star
Feb 23 at 8:51amWeb
Show threadMark BurtonFeb 23

They said: “The global community cannot remain mute and indolent while a fatal, pernicious fuel tourniquet stifles the Cuban economy and suffocates human lives there.”

#Cuba
#USImperialism

Show threadrhempelFeb 23

@markhburton I don't understand how this isn't on the front page of CNN or The Guardian - it's an intentional starvation of people that really need help.

Am I missing something?

Show threadMark BurtonFeb 23
@rhempel
The Rubios care nothing for the Cuban people.
#gusanos
Show threadEric LawtonFeb 23

@markhburton

The idea that the citizens of other countries are worth absolutely nothing and can be killed by their thousands, is only one of the evils of nationalism and the abhorrent “International order” that divides us while demanding loyalty to “leaders”.

@AnnaAnthro

Show threadForse (he/him)Feb 24
@EricLawton @markhburton @AnnaAnthro It's one of the many ways we are divided and conquered by the powerful.