Cuba: Real Commitment to Human Rights

Havana, Mar 31 (Prensa Latina) The monumental media campaign on Cuba by the United States has precisely its Achilles' heel on the issue chosen to attack a country that has a real commitment to human rights.

Carrying upon shoulders the execution of wars of massive extermination from Hiroshima to Afghanistan, Washington lacks moral authority to draw up guidelines to the Cubans on how to respect and promote especially the right to life.

We should mention the attempts of successive US administrations to cause a food catastrophe in Cuba with sabotages to agricultural and livestock production centers along with the longest economic, trade and financial blockade the world has always remembered.

To launch a bacteriological war against the cattle, to deny the possibility to the Caribbean country of purchasing medicines and food abroad for its people, and to support the sabotage in mid air of a Cuban commercial plane say enough of what the United States understands to respect for human rights.

But the most important response to a campaign that has been constant is the action of Cuba and not only to guarantee people's access to all possible opportunities of food, study, work and cultural development.

Cuba is also defending the rights of other peoples with the presence of tens of thousands of physicians and health professionals in over 70 countries worldwide. They are working in distant places and very complex conditions.

States that have suffered natural disasters, as those recently occurred in Haiti and Chile, know a friendly hand from Cuban doctors, also now strived to carry out genetic studies to thousands people with disabilities in Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia, among others.

More than one million poor people living in Latin America have recovered or improved eyesight through free surgeries by Cuban experts, while thousands of the island's teachers have taught how to read and write people in Latin America and worldwide.