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“Freedom” Through Starvation

 

From International Socialist Review, Vol.22 No.4, Fall 1961, p.119.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

 

“Yet, we still allow many other Cuban imports onto this country in exchange for US dollars, foodstuffs, and many other items whose exportation can only bolster the Castro regime.

“Surely this policy cannot continue if we expect to advance freedom at full speed in Cuba. Positive action is necessary to hasten Castro’s downfall. Mr. Speaker, I proudly join my colleagues who are fighting for this objective and call upon the Congress to enact a complete trade embargo which would help end this tyranny.”

— From remarks of Representative Seymour Halpern of N.Y.
in the US House of Representatives, Aug. 15, 1961

 
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