Rosa María Payá, daughter of the late Cuban far-right dissident Osvaldo Payá, follows in her father's footsteps by calling for economic sanctions against Cuba and continuing a legacy of comprador behavior. Photo: EFE.
In a virtual hearing on human rights with the European Parliament, Cuban opposition activists Rosa María Payá and José Daniel Ferrer called for new economic sanctions against their own country, with their historic goal of deepening the suffering of the Cuban people.
This is a classic strategy of the opposition to Cuban sovereignty: calling for more US sanctions and a tightening of the blockade, then blaming the Cuban government for the needs of the population.
Both Payá and Ferrer have stood out in their opposition to Cuba due to their paid position with the United States and their close ties to the violent terrorist mafia in Miami.
Like those who support them, they claim that the economic blockade of the island will suffocate the population, exacerbating their hardships, while justifying the United States’ human rights violations. With this, they aim to deepen the suffocation by knocking on European doors.
To expand this action, anti-Cuban media outlets paid by US government agencies are spreading their rhetoric, as the Cuban counterrevolution is experiencing a period of discredit and little support, facing profound internal divisions.
Payá, whose organization Cuba Decide receives funding from the US government, stated that the Cuban government “has plunged Cubans into hunger and misery,” manipulating the narrative and obscuring the fact that the US blockade is responsible for the flow of income into the country. This is reflected in the inability to acquire medicine, food, and fuel, among other basic necessities.
Ferrer, for his part, confronts the Cuban Revolution by repeating already worn-out slogans fabricated in Miami about “political prisoners,” hypocritically ignoring that he himself has been linked to illegal financing from abroad to promote sedition in Cuba.
Tras 65 años del infame memorando, gob. EEUU mantiene misma política vs #Cuba: hacer sufrir a nuestro pueblo y atacar sus fuentes de sustento, con bloqueo, fraudulenta lista patrocinadores terrorismo, guerra cognitiva y comunicacional y campaña vs cooperación médica cubana. pic.twitter.com/9pTfP18mV6
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) April 6, 2025
Payá and Ferrer’s stance is part of Washington’s plan, in place since 1960 and reflected in the Lester Mallory Memorandum, to weaken the Cuban government through political destabilization, an economic blockade, and international isolation.
These strategies would not be possible without the complicity of Washington’s paid spokespersons—media outlets that call themselves independent but whose mission is to influence the population to bring about a change in the island’s system. To this end, they are promoting the media war against Cuba, which currently focuses on generating smear campaigns and justifying new economic attacks against the country.
(Telesur)
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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