Like silent bombs destined to exterminate the Cuban people, the measures and sanctions of the United States fall week after week.

With a political rhetoric that cannot withstand the slightest logical analysis nor stand on verifiable facts, the current U.S. administration is doing everything possible to destroy Cuba, its example, and its Revolution — even if the cost is the lives of human beings who only wish to live in peace.

According to United Nations data, infant mortality has doubled, reaching 9.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. The same report warns that childhood cancer survival has fallen from 85% to 65%, a serious setback in medical care. Furthermore, the availability of essential medications barely reaches 30% of normal supply levels.

As if this situation were not already alarming, the report reveals that food production has decreased by 60%, which has caused a drastic increase in the prices of basic foods. Electrical blackouts regularly exceed 20 hours daily, and more than 2,900 metric tons of food were blocked due to the suspension of shipping services.

These data show how the energy siege and Washington's pressures on third countries have negatively impacted the quality of life of the inhabitants of a nation that, despite the blockade, has developed a robust biotechnology industry with unique advances. Today, however, its suppliers also face the consequences of the genocidal siege, which limits their capacities and threatens the health of thousands.

The Cuban people suffer, and that suffering is the declared objective of figures like Marco Rubio and those who have hijacked U.S. policy toward Cuba, turning death and silent genocide into a lucrative business.

With total shamelessness, they have declared that they expect the high summer temperatures to become allies of their macabre strategy. They intend for the heat and the impossibility of preserving food to provoke a social outburst in Cuba — one that would justify the harshest actions and even contribute to materializing the much-touted military aggression against Cubans.

Each percentage in those reports has a face, a name, a story. It hurts not only the families but also the doctor who could not apply the necessary treatment because someone, from a golf course, a lavish reception, or a large office in Washington or Miami, decided that for those living in Cuba there will be no medicines, no food, no oil to light homes or start factories, and much less foreign currency to trade.

Cuba's most elementary economic relations must be carried out furtively and sometimes at risk premiums, due to threats and actions that seek to sow fear and provoke the stampede of business owners who maintain relations with Cuba.

This war, the Cuban people face with enormous moral and human reserves, with strategies to confront this asymmetric aggression, with the determination not to capitulate in the name of those who have been the fatal victims of this aggression.

It is a resistance that rises from dignity and resilience, and that turns pain into strength to continue defending life.

Translated by Sergio A. Paneque Díaz / CubaSí Translation Staff