/Lula and Chico Buarque sign letter to NYT against US embargo on Cuba – 07/22/2021 – World
Lula and Chico Buarque sign letter to NYT against US embargo on Cuba – 07/22/2021 – World
ksuadminJuly 22, 2021
More than 440 activists, politicians, artists and intellectuals from different countries have signed a public letter addressed to the government of President Joe Biden, which will be published in the American newspaper New York Times this Friday (23). The document criticizes the trade and economic embargo that the United States has imposed on Cuba for more than six decades.
Posted as a paid ad in the newspaper, the text urges Biden to cancel the more than 200 sanctions lifted by his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, who has stepped up the embargo on the island in rhetoric and in practice. “There is no reason to maintain the Cold War policies that lead the United States to treat Cuba as an enemy rather than a neighboring country,” one passage reads.
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