Let Cuba Decide

Amid a dictatorship in Cuba that whitewashing its image with a referendum that in the absence of independent institutions to verify its authenticity constitutes a farce and one that blocks freedoms needed to empower the people of Cuba in their handling of the humanitarian catastrophe the nation faces, we join the citizen initiative CUBADECIDE in its just and historic demand for a binding plebiscite monitored by legitimate democratic institutions.

It is not possible to call oneself a friend of the people of Cuba and continue to remain silent and inactive in the face of a regime that holds more than 1,000 political prisoners and that harasses and tramples on the rights of every Cuban who raises his or her voice for democracy in Cuba. Everyone who stands in solidarity with the people of Cuba must as a fundamental and indisputable principle support the right of Cubans to choose, to decide their political system. In Canada we call on all freedom lovers, civil society, legislators to support us in this noble cause for a Cuba where respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law prevail.