On December 10, Human Rights are celebrated around the world. The pity is that not all peoples enjoy them. There are countries that set themselves up insincerely as defenders of them and yet they are the ones that violate them the most, inside and outside their borders.
Let’s review history.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN for the first time in 1948, on December 10, in response to the barbarism that had been seen after World War II.
In the document there are 30 rights that no one can take away from human beings, because we are born with them; because the fact of being human and living in societies legitimizes us to be respected and to respect others.
Being the most translated document in the world and currently in force, is it complied with? Does the United Nations have the responsibility to ask for it to be complied with?
You don’t have to be an expert in international law to know that yes, they do. Remembering Fidel in a speech in front of the representatives of the countries that made up the UN a few years ago:
– What does the United Nations stand for?
This year Human Rights Day takes on added meaning because we do not forget Palestine. Palestine is present every day in our minds, in our hearts and in every act we carry out. I talk on the phone. I hang up and think of the journalists killed in Palestine who will never again be able to make a phone call. I drink a coffee and think of the mother who lost her son. I write and think of the children and people massacred by Zionist state terrorism. Of course, not a day goes by when we do not think of this brotherly people. Brotherly people not only of Cuba, but of proletarian internationalism. Wherever there is a person on the planet who feels any injustice as his own, Palestine has a relative.
Why does the world passively contemplate the massacre, the new Nakba, the terror in the eyes of those who have lost everything?
Does it make sense to celebrate Human Rights Day again this year when most of the countries of the world ignore the plight of the holocaust of Gaza?
With what shame can they talk about democracy in their countries and accuse others of violating Human Rights when the UN does nothing to stop this genocide against the Palestinian People?
For years we have been seeing the United States and Israel violating Human Rights, however they say that those who violate them are Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and any other country that does not submit to their sinister tyranny. The western media control always supporting the communication strategy to generate in the public opinion a board where they can point the finger at the “bad” countries: more accurately those who oppose the United States and their goal of world domination at all human cost.
How funny! Countries that provide more social guarantees to their inhabitants than the North American beast. But it is not convenient for them to ever acknowledge the benefits of socialism as a system, and Cuba is currently a socialist country.
If the impassivity continues, if the general indifference continues, if the United Nations continues to be impotent and do nothing while colonialism disappears an entire people, they should not doubt that at any moment, when it is a matter of whim, or simply of commercial, geopolitical or strategic interest, it will go after any of them. Any of their countries, their families, their cities, including those who did not raise their voices for Palestine.
It’s never too late to move to the side of justice and dignity. No longer countries, but as people. You, if you have not yet spoken out and you are reading this. Say this loud: Long Live Free Palestine!