Harare, Dec 17 (Prensa Latina) Mafa Kwanisai Mafa, Coordinator of the Fidel Castro Chair at Zimbabwe Midlands University, denounced the intensification of the economic war against Cuba following the recent seizure of the Venezuelan oil tanker.

The sanctions and the blockade are instruments of collective punishment and have direct and painful consequences for the daily lives of the people, not due to natural disasters or mismanagement, but due to deliberate external aggression, Mafa emphasized in an article in Modern Ghana and regional media.

The professor stated that Cuba’s power grid, already under pressure due to decades of US blockade and restricted access to technology and finance, is further weakened by these hostile actions.

The boarding and seizure of the oil tanker in international waters of the Caribbean Sea on December 10 marks a dangerous and revealing escalation in the prolonged economic war waged against the Caribbean nation.

The use of military force to interfere in sovereign exchanges between Cuba and Venezuela reveals Washington’s true nature: not a policy of law enforcement or regional stability, but one of domination and economic strangulation.

The moral dimension of this aggression cannot be ignored. For more than six decades, Cuba has suffered an economic blockade that the overwhelming majority of the world’s countries condemn year after year in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

However, Mafa stated, history also teaches that Cuba’s resistance is based on a profound sense of dignity and sovereignty, in defense of the right to self-determination, social justice, and international solidarity.

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