Danny Shaw: The vast majority of the world opposes the blockade
In view of the recent vote at the United Nations against the U.S. blockade of Cuba, teleSUR interviewed Danny Shaw, international analyst, exclusively. teleSUR
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00:00 Earlier today we were following live the plenary session at the UN in which 187 countries have
00:06 voted in favor of the lifting of the US embargo of Cuba against only two votes and one abstention.
00:13 And now we welcome political analyst Danny Cho, who is joining us to further analyze
00:18 what happened today at the UN headquarters.
00:20 Danny, it's a pleasure to welcome you to From the South.
00:24 What are for you the implications of yet another vote in favor of the lifting of the US embargo?
00:29 Good morning, Belen from Los Angeles.
00:34 It's truly sad that year after year the member countries of the United Nations speak for
00:40 the world's people, speak for the oppressed countries, the exploited countries, the misnamed
00:45 third world countries.
00:46 And the vast majority of the world's people are completely against this economic and military
00:51 suffocating blockade of the Cuban people.
00:53 It's been in effect for six years now, just as the same masses of people across the world
00:58 are against Israeli and US aggression against the Palestinian people.
01:02 But we see once again, Belen, that the United Nations is a joke.
01:06 The United Nations is a plaything in the hands of the Western imperial powers so that they
01:11 have a camouflage or a fig leaf to pretend that they care about the world's people from
01:15 Cuba to Palestine to Haiti, when in fact they don't.
01:18 And they've never stopped any of these aggressive imperialist wars against the countries that
01:23 I've mentioned.
01:25 Now Danny, you were just saying year after year the international community boasts to
01:30 lift this embargo.
01:32 The UN itself has issued reports stating that the coercive measures imposed by the US on
01:37 Cuba do not abide by the rule of law.
01:40 However, up to now the embargo has not ceased to condition the Cuban population.
01:45 Today we witnessed an overwhelming support of the international community to the Cuban
01:50 cause.
01:51 Is there reason to believe we might be at a political turning point?
01:55 We have a stronger G77 group, an expanding BRICS group demanding a multipolar world.
02:00 How are you reading this scene?
02:02 There's no question that multipolarity is on the rise, but it's a difficult transition.
02:11 These are difficult birth pains because the birth pains right now are happening over the
02:19 blood and bones of 1.1 million children in Gaza, China, and Russia, in the Bolivarian
02:26 camp.
02:27 Diplomatically, they're putting up a lot of resistance.
02:30 We hear Gustavo Petro, and the Bolivians and countries around the world boycotting the
02:35 Zionist entity.
02:36 But it's not enough.
02:37 How do we save life?
02:39 And the Cuban people feel this, and people across South America and Africa and the Middle
02:43 East, there's a natural kinship with the people of Gaza and with the Palestinian people.
02:48 But right now, the enemy, the imperialist enemy, the Zionist enemy, is very strong.
02:53 They control the informational war.
02:55 They control the economic war.
02:57 In this massive bombardment, this encirclement, this siege of Gaza, how are the Palestinian
03:04 people going to live?
03:05 So across the world, from Cuba to northern Nigeria to Palestine, how can we sleep when
03:11 watching a holocaust of our beautiful Palestinian sisters and brothers and children?
03:18 Exactly.
03:19 And of course, the voting today also shows the connection between the U.S. embargo and
03:24 this international scene.
03:27 Only U.S. and Israel were the countries who voted against the resolution.
03:34 As the U.S. continues to back the massacre of the Palestinian people in Gaza, despite
03:39 the outcry of the international community, also the only country who abstained from the
03:44 vote was Ukraine, another country with its own political and military ties with the U.S.
03:50 In the current political scene, how do you understand the U.S. embargo on Cuba in the
03:55 light of this political scene?
03:57 And why does the U.S. insist on maintaining it?
04:01 The siege of Cuba, the siege of Venezuela, the siege of Nicaragua, the siege of Russia,
04:07 the siege of China, the siege of Vietnam, the siege of Palestine, it's all interconnected.
04:12 And if we go back and we study El Doctor Ernesto Che Guevara, and we study some of the great
04:18 ideologues of tricontinentalism and the unity of oppressed people, we see that a victory
04:24 for the Palestinians is a victory for the Cubans, a victory for the Angolans is a victory
04:27 for the Portuguese working class.
04:30 So the only way we can confront this axis of genocide, the United States and Israel
04:35 and Zionism, this is an axis of genocide.
04:38 With 2.4 million Palestinian lives hanging in the balance, this can only be met by the
04:45 unification of the world's people into an axis of life, an axis of unity, pan-Arabism,
04:51 pan-Caribbeanism, pan-Muslim unity.
04:55 It's only the world's people that can stop this Holocaust.
04:58 The Zionists in the U.S. are not going to stop it, because the U.S. is looking to force
05:02 Iran, Hezbollah, and the axis of resistance, indigenous to the Middle East, into a war
05:08 so that they have a medium and informational justification, bombs away over Tehran, bombs
05:14 away over Beirut.
05:16 And the countries of the region want peace, but Zionism in the U.S., the axis of genocide,
05:21 want more war.
05:25 The political scene that you're describing is clear.
05:28 We will continue to further analyze this scenario.
05:31 I thank you, Danny Cho, political analyst, for joining us today.