BEIRUT: Hezbollah views Washington’s historic reconciliation with Cuba after five decades of Cold War impasse as a popular victory against colonial hegemony, a party official said Wednesday.
“The achievements of Cuba, which was firm on its principles, is a lesson for all people of the world who are suffering from American hegemony,” Hezbollah official Ammar Moussawi said after a meeting with the Cuban ambassador to Lebanon.
Cuba’s success reveals how the will of the people is much stronger than a policy of sanctions, threats and intimidation practiced by hegemonic forces, Moussawi said.
Moussawi also congratulated Cuba for “thwarting a political, economic and military siege which was carried out as policy by Washington against Cuba for more than half a century.”
The firmness of Cuba’s positions and the steadfastness and patience of the Cuban people has pushed the US administration to recognize the inability of the siege to force Cuba to join American colonial policies, he said.
The statement was released after Washington and Cuba said last week they would launch measures to rebuild relations between the two countries, cut off since shortly after Fidel Castro took power in 1959, with first official talks scheduled for January.
Moussawi met Wednesday with the Cuban Ambassador to Lebanon Rene Prats.
According to a statement released by Hezbollah’s news office, “the visit was an occasion to congratulate the leadership and people of Cuba on the liberation of five Cuban youths who were detained in U.S. prisons for more than 15 years.”
In comments made after the meeting, Moussawi said that detention of the Cuban nationals by U.S. authorities unlawfully has always been a “black page” in the history of American politics.
The release, according to the Hezbollah official, would not have been possible had it not been for the fact that the issue continued to be essential to Cuba’s foreign policy interests.
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