End the U.S. Embargo on Cuba!

Activists in Duluth held a rally in Duluth on Oct. 29 calling for the United States to end its decades long embargo against Cuba.  The protest was sponsored by the MN Cuba Committee, the Solidarity Committee of the Americas, Twin Ports DSA, Grandmothers for Peace and the Northwoods Socialist Collection.

The action was held in solidarity with similar events all over the country being held this week, as the United Nations prepares once again to condemn the decades long embargo.

On this past Wednesday, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez issued a statement saying that the decades-old trade embargo has been causing record financial losses and untold human suffering in recent months, at a time when Cuba was also battling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and Hurricane Ian.  He went on to describe the embargo as “a permanent pandemic, a constant hurricane.”

We urge our readers to support the call for an end to the embargo.  Not only does it cause hardships on the Cuba people, but it represents an ugly example of imperialism trying to smother a small nation’s efforts to build an alternative to global capitalism.