Cuba calls for support

Cuba calls for support

SYDNEY — The Cuban consul general in Australia, Marcelino Fajardo, has appealed to friends of Cuba to express their solidarity in the coming weeks. The United States government is again to raise the spurious question of human rights in Cuba in the United Nations when the special reporter on Cuba presents his findings.

In a letter to all Cuba's supporters, Fajardo says the US will attempt to use this report to tighten further its crippling blockade. "The aim", he says, "is to destroy the Cuban revolution and its achievements as a punishment for being independent" and refusing to obey the orders of the US. In the letter he slams Washington's hypocrisy, pointing out that the US is the worst violator of human rights in the world.

Fajardo vows that the Cuban people, with the support and solidarity of people throughout the world, will not give up their goal of further developing Cuba's democracy, liberty and independence.

Friends of Cuba are asked to send messages opposing this US-inspired witch-hunt and protesting against the continuing US blockade of Cuba to: United Nations Office, Centre For Human Rights, Palais Des Nationals, ch 121, Geneve, Switzerland (fax 022 733 9879, telex 289 696). Copies should also be sent to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra and the Cuban Consulate in Sydney.

From GLW issue 119