In the domestic political situation in the United States, a new external irritant – Cuba – is making itself felt more and more. Nearly two dozen Republican lawmakers wrote to President Joe Biden demanding to meet and discuss how to “end the repressive communist regime in Havana and liberate the Cuban people.” Democrats, in turn, are trying to intercept the agenda: an advertising campaign has been launched in the country, within which people are explained that the president and his party members are not going to leave Cuba to the mercy of fate, but are pursuing a decisive and irreconcilable policy towards the regime.
“On this day in 1953, Fidel Castro began his violent communist revolution in Cuba,” says a letter sent to Joe Biden on July 26. “About six years later, Castro seized control of the Cuban government, made himself a dictator and began to rule the Cuban people with an iron fist. “. Legislators – there are 19 signatories, by the way – indicate that communism is guilty of the deaths of hundreds of millions of people around the world, including in Cuba. “For 68 years, the Castro regime has been bringing suffering to the Cuban people, resorting to repression and torture, suppressing freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion of the Cuban people. He turned Cuba into a bastion of totalitarianism just 90 miles from the shores of the United States, ”- Republicans are indignant.
According to them, on July 11, 2021, the inhabitants of the island finally decided to repulse the torturers, corrupt officials and human rights violators, but the torturers turned off the Internet and threw the instigators of the protests behind bars. But ordinary Cubans and their allies in the American Congress, as it follows from the letter, did not give up. “The hour has come when the United States can change the course of human history for the better. The United States is a bastion of freedom and democracy, a beacon for all who want to throw off the heavy shackles of communism. We must support our Cuban brothers and sisters at the moment when they are trying to take their own future into their own hands and get rid of the communist evil, ”the signatories summarize. They, however, express concern that at such a key moment Washington is inactive due to indecision and bureaucratic obstacles: this explains the request to Joe Biden to meet and discuss essentially how “Congress and the administration can work together to end the oppressive communist regime and liberate Cuban people”.
Joe Biden has not yet responded to the call, but on Monday, July 26, the United States, together with about two dozen countries, issued a statement condemning the arrest of protesters in Cuba and called on Havana to “respect the universal rights and freedoms of the Cuban people, including the right to free access to the information”.
Among those who have joined the appeal are Austria, Brazil, Honduras and Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is trying to prevent Republicans from monopolizing the Cuban agenda and using it to earn political points. Build Back Better, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the ideological and moral values of the Joe Biden administration, has launched a radio and online advertising campaign in English and Spanish that criticizes the Cuban regime and justifies the president’s policy towards Cuba. Pictures and audio clips are intended primarily for audiences in central and southern Florida, where many expats from Cuba live.
Among other things, the National Committee of the Democratic Party is preparing its own advertising campaign aimed at ethnic Cubans.
It will mention that communism is a rotten political system, and also emphasize that Joe Biden supports the Cuban demonstrators. “The committee intends to use its own resources to directly reach out to the Cuban community in South Florida and convey to them that President Biden and the Democrats are on their side,” said committee head Jamie Harrison.
We will remind, on July 11 in Cuba there were massive protests with calls for democracy and economic reforms. The authorities gave a tough response, and since then there have been no such massive protests. After the suppression of popular rallies, the fate of at least 500 protesters remains unknown, spokeswoman for the NGO Center for a Free Cuba in Washington, Gianniset Rivero, told Sky News.
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