cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33606351

Statement by the US-Cuba Normalization Coalition

For over 60 years, the U.S. government has imposed a harsh blockade along with economic and political warfare aimed at destabilizing and overthrowing the Cuban government. As part of this project, it has also incentivized Cuban emigration by offering special pathways to residency and citizenship if they made their way to the U.S. The narrative that they are “victims of Communism” seeking freedom is misleading. In reality the hardships created by the U.S. blockade, more than political differences, have fueled emigration. These bribes were intended to turn them into pawns in Washington’s war against Cuba.

The blockade of Cuba is an extreme and highly political version of the more general U.S. economic sanctions and interventionist policies whose devastating impact over decades has driven millions of working people to leave their homelands to find economic survival in the U.S.