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Mr. Speaker, in an open letter to the world from an island, an ordinary woman denounces a crime that the world refuses to see.
She writes, “My name is like millions of others”, Ikay Romay. “I am an ordinary Cuban woman—a daughter, a sister [and] I write this with a broken heart and trembling hands. What my people [are experiencing] today is not a crisis.” It is a crime. “It is slow, calculated murder…. And the world looks the other way.”
Let us look at Cuba, at what the United States is doing to it, and ask ourselves, “Which side of history do I want to be on?”
This is a crime. I ask that we share her message. Children and babies are dying in incubators because of blockades. People are dying for lack of medication. I ask that we do not look the other way. Thousands of people sharing her message will make a difference.