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August 7, 2006 A.D.
Open letter to Señorita Condoleezza Rice
U.S. Secretary of State
Washington, D.C., USA
Honorable Señorita Rice:
My courteous greetings to you.
I just read your plea to us Cubans who live in the Republic of Cuba that we not abandon the Island and take ourselves to the United States, according to what the Associated Press has published, due to a supposed uncertainty among Cubans because of the illness of President Fidel Castro.
I also have read an untruth on the part of your government, made public outside President Bush's ranch in Texas by spokesperson Tony Snow, saying that the United States does not have plans to invade Cuba.
Señorita Secretary, with regard to these two statements, permit me, with all due respect, to make two things known to you:
1) The overwhelming majority of the Cuban people – I am not exaggerating if I say 97% of them: 10,767,000 Cuban men and women – have no intention to leave Cuba, and we are conscious that we live in the midst of this revolutionary project of liberty, independence, and socialist democracy, which we are not going to renounce. We do not deny that the remaining 3% -- 333,000 citizens – could wish to leave Cuba, due to 333,000 different reasons. If you wish, you could double that number and say that there are 666,000; which wouldn't make any difference. At the same time, it is not we Cubans who have encouraged abandoning the Island in order to create difficulties for anyone, but rather, on the contrary, it is the United States which for decades, has stimulated this with its migratory policies, which favor Cubans for political reasons while discriminating against other nationalities.
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