Cuba – The Endless Cruelty of US Sanctions – The US Intercepts Chinese Medical Supplies to Cuba
Interview with PressTV
Background
Cuba complained recently that a
shipment of test kits, masks and respirators, donated by the Chinese
Alibaba group, didn’t arrive because the American company tasked with
transportation feared breaching U-S sanction rules. Washington imposed
an embargo on Cuba in 19-62 after the island nation nationalized its oil
industry. The measures have been denounced by the United Nations 28
years in a row.
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PressTV: What are your views on this?
Peter Koenig: First, there are no words to describe the
cruelty of this – and many other similar acts by the United States, to
utilize this pandemic to tighten the screws even more on sanctioned
countries like Cuba and Venezuela and Iran – and many others, by
blocking vital medical supplies from reaching these countries medical
staff and hospitals to treat patents. The blockage of this medical
supply may cause even more death from a virus that most likely
originated in the US.
But did you know that this worldwide pandemic was planned for years, and its last stp before it was launched was Event 201,
sponsored by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (created and funded
by the Rockefeller Foundation), by the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, and the World Economic Forum, the club of the
ultra-oligarchs that meet every months in Davos, Switzerland.
The event took place on October 18,
2019, in New York City and produced a number of pandemic simulations,
exactly with a corona virus which for the simulation strangely and
coincidentally – was called 2019-nCoV. Later the name was changed by WHO
into COVID-19. The result of the simulation produced 65 million deaths
in 18 months, a stock market collapse of more than 30% and an insane
number of unemployment and bankruptcies. What we are living now is
exactly that, in fact, we are seeing just the tiny top of the iceberg.
This was a planned worldwide
destruction of the socioeconomic fabric and all that depends on it. It
was an attempt of the few powerful on top of the pyramid- the Dark Deep
State – to plunge bulk of the world population into a never before seen
misery – and, of course, as always, it will affect poor countries more
than the rich.
Having said this, the illegal US
blockage of Cuba for almost 60 years of which we all know is inhuman and
cruel and against all international laws and standards.
The UN has voted against this
illegitimate blockade against Cuba for almost 30 years in a row. Of the
193 UN members, 191 voted against the continuation of the blockade. The
exceptions were the US and Israel.
This entire world body voting against
the US sanction, represents more than 99% of the world population. Yet,
it does nothing against the US and its sanctions and embargos Cuba,
Venezuela, Iran, China, Russia, North Korea – and many more. Currently
about 30% of the world population are affected in one way or another by
US sanctions. Why doesn’t the entire world collectively sanction the US?
I know, this is a pipe dream. But it’s
a possibility. Especially now that the world economy is about to
collapse because of the draconian measures almost every government of
the globe has taken to fight the corona virus – we have literally
created “planet lockdown”. Now that we may enter into an entire new
socioeconomic paradigm, is the time for the 99.9% of the population, to
apply the shock doctrine in verse. It would be the moment for the 191
countries of the UN body to take control and start sanctioning the US,
until the ruthless empire becomes a normal respectable nation.
PressTV: In December 2014 Obama
initiated the “Cuban Thaw” and in July 2015 reestablished diplomatic
relations between Washington and Havana. What happened after that?
PK: First, I think we have to
see this new overture” by Obama like many other initiatives he took – a
dishonest move. It foremost was to put officially US spies and US
propaganda agents into the newly reopened US Embassy, because the
loosening of the embargo was never part of the deal. There was not even
a plan, when that might happen.
Then came Trump, a ferocious
anti-socialist, anti-everything-that-is-not capitalist fanatic. He also
immensely disliked Obama and wanted to undo as much as possible of what
Obama managed in his 8 years at the helm in Washington. So, instead of
talking about the next steps of loosening the embargo, as the Cubans
rightly expected, Trump tightened the screws on the sanctions invoking
the strengthening of the Helms-Burton act. This US federal law is a mere
strengthening of the sanctions and embargo against Cuba.
Then under a ridiculous pretext that Cuba poisoned US embassy staff
with an unidentifiable hearing disease, Washington withdrew almost all
staff from the Embassy. But the official Cuban Washington relation is
still on the records, and the Embassies nominally in place.
Since then, Trump and his various
advisors and spokes-people have repeatedly declared that President Trump
will not tolerate any socialism in the world, and especially not in
“his” Hemisphere; that he will eradicate Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua
as we know them. That has so far not happened. Will see. These countries
resistance is much stronger than the Trump ideologues are capable of
imagining. – So much for the Obama “opening” to Cuba.
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Peter Koenig
is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources
and environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World
Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields
of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe
and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT;
Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; Greanville Post; Defend Democracy
Press, TeleSUR; The Saker Blog, the New Eastern Outlook (NEO); and other
internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
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