Mexican Senate Asks Obama to Lift Blockade on Cuba

[magbana]

http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/worldnews.htm

Mexican Senate Asks Obama to Lift Blockade on Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 21 (acn) After a unanimous vote, the Mexican senate
has asked U.S President Barack Obama to take actions to lift the
economic, financial and commercial blockade of Cuba.

The initiative came from Senators Maria de Lourdes Rojo, Yeidckol
Polevnsky, Rosario Ybarra and Adriana Gonzalez, according to a Prensa
Latina report.

The legislators agreed to state that the blockade imposed on Cuba by
Washington for nearly five decades is the longest and cruellest of
such measures ever known in the history of mankind.

The senators added that the blockade is an essential part of a policy
marked by hostility and aggression that have failed to fulfill its goal
of destroying the Revolution.

Recently, the Mexican Senate passed an “amicus” to the U.S Supreme
Court in relation to the case of five Cubans that have been imprisoned
in American jails for more than 10 years now, for having tried to
prevent criminal actions led by Miami-based groups against the Cuban
people and government leaders.

[Peace Patriot]

1. A unanimous vote of the Mexican Senate! That's pretty amazing.

Last thing I saw in the news on Mexico's legislature, they were literally coming to blows over something. I can't recall for sure what it was, but I think it had to do with the presidential election stolen from leftist Lopez-Obrador (whose hairsbreadth loss, by only 0.05%, has long been under suspicion), or possibly about the privatization of Mexico's constitutionally protected oil industry (which is why the Bushwhacks helped Calderon steal the election). I'm surprised they achieved unity on anything, let alone such a politically contentious matter as Cuba. Maybe the senate has more 'collegiality' than the assembly. I don't know that much about Mexico's legislature. Do you know anything about this, magbana? I'd be especially interested to know what Mexico's rightwingers (corpo/fascists) hope to gain by the U.S. lifting the embargo on Cuba. Corpo/fascists don't do anything, I've learned, for good reasons--only for private gain. So what is their interest in Cuba?

I'm reminded of the rightwing Colorado Party which ruled Paraguay for 60 years, including a period of heinous dictatorship, but recently "saw the handwriting on the wall" in South America, and joined the Chavez-inspired "Bank of the South," as well as rescinding their infamous non-extradition law (which had made Paraguay a haven for rightwing war criminals) and their law immunizing the U.S. military in their country. Paraguay did these things before leftist Fernando Lugo was elected last year. So maybe the corpo/fascists in Mexico are just facing reality? In the view of the collapse of the fascist giant to the north, they need to align with the overwhelming leftist trend in South America, which is threatening to engulf Central America/the Caribbean as well, with peace, social justice and cooperation?

[Mika]

2. With all of this pressure on the sanctions, I guess the US campaign coffers will benefit.

More pressure means more money to pay for the dastardly deeds. Good for business as usual.

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