MINREX STATEMENT
A lesson in “democracy” from the United States
IN the evening of November 12 it was announced that the House-Senate conference committee studying the Treasury-Transportation Appropriations bill had decided to eliminate from that legal draft the amendment advocating a relaxation of the existing ban on U.S. citizens visiting Cuba, despite the fact that both the U.S. House and Senate had approved the amendment by a substantial majority.
Once again, the Republican leadership in Congress and the anti-Cuban mafia have had recourse to anti-democratic mechanisms in order to eliminate the aforementioned amendment by violating norms and regulations established by the U.S. Congress itself.
Thus anti-Cuban groupings are demonstrating yet again that the only tactics left open to them as a means of blocking the advance of U.S. and global forces advocating a change in the irrational U.S. policy on Cuba and the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States are provocations, lies and anti-democratic recourses such as the presidential veto or the one implemented last night.
The mafia desperation is evident.
For its part, Cuba will continue to work for a normal and constructive rapprochement between the peoples of the island and the United States.
That move once more confirms the total failure of U.S. policy on Cuba, which has to change because it does not represent the most genuine and legitimate interests of the U.S. people, but only the narrow and absurd interests of minority sectors of the Miami terrorist ultra-right wing, historically defeated by the Cuban Revolution.
November 13, 2003