Maine and Quebec activists again protest U.S. anti-Cuban blockade
Maine and Quebec activists again protest U.S. anti-Cuban blockade
by: W. T. Whitney Jr.
July 6 2015
COATICOOK, Quebec - The U.S. and Cuban governments on July 1 restored diplomatic relations cut off half a century ago, but U. S. measures humiliating and messing with the sovereign Cuban people are still in force. They are aimed at ending Cuba's social revolution.
What the two nations have done so far, according to a Cuban government statement on the same day, is only "the first stage of what will be a long and complex process. ... Lifting of the blockade, among other aspects, will be indispensable for the normalization of relations." Cuba called upon the United States to do more. For one thing, it must end "programs aimed at promoting internal subversion and destabilization."
Unfinished business indeed was on the minds of Canadian and U.S. Cuba solidarity activists on June 27 as they came together in Coaticook, Quebec, a few miles north of the U.S. border station at Norton, Vermont. For the 16th year they were engaging in action against the U.S. anti-Cuban economic blockade. Once more they were working together with the 2015 Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba.
That same day, on the other side of the continent, Vancouver defenders of Cuban independence were delivering humanitarian aid material to activists in Washington State. They too were part of the Pastors for Peace network.
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