Statement by the US-Cuba Normalization Coalition

For over 60 years, the U.S. government has imposed a harsh blockade along with economic and political warfare aimed at
destabilizing and overthrowing the Cuban government. As part of this project, it has also incentivized Cuban emigration by
offering special pathways to residency and citizenship if they made their way to the U.S. The narrative that they are "victims of
Communism" seeking freedom is misleading. In reality the hardships created by the U.S. blockade, more than political
differences, have fueled emigration. These bribes were intended to turn them into pawns in Washington’s war against Cuba.

The blockade of Cuba is an extreme and highly political version of the more general U.S. economic sanctions and
interventionist policies whose devastating impact over decades has driven millions of working people to leave their homelands
to find economic survival in the U.S.

https://groups.io/g/cubanews/message/41270