THE anti-Cuba resolution that the European Parliament has just adopted clearly aligns that institution with the ferocious political and media campaign currently aimed against Cuba, which seeks to manufacture patriots from mercenaries and criminals involved in acts of subversion directed at destroying the constitutional order constructed by our people over 52 years.

What took place in Strasbourg could be described as another episode in the ongoing conspiracy which, utilizing the corporate media and organizations managed by the most reactionary sectors, is trying to take advantage of the lamentable incident of the death of a Cuban common prisoner, later recruited by a counterrevolutionary group, as the result of a prolonged hunger strike maintained of his own free well, in order to confuse international public opinion.

This initiative, sponsored by European right-wing forces in Parliament, managed to draw in the different political groups that make up this legislature, thus clearly revealing the convergence of right-wing and reactionary positions within it, independently of names and classifications.

That is easy to understand if one takes into account the reason for organizing the debate in the European Parliament, convened on the hackneyed theme in anti-Cuba propaganda of "the situation of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience on the island."

The sole objective was to produce a condemnation of the Cuban government and people, who have really been subjected to the violation of their own rights by the long U.S. blockade and by the European Union’s interference in their internal affairs.

During the debate and in order to shore up their positions, rightist Euro-deputies had no compunction whatsoever in taking up the worn arguments traditionally utilized by the United States to question our political system in an interventionist manner.

It is lamentable that the European Parliament should crudely include in its resolution the very essence of the common position, without even having the honesty to mention it. That very same common position which, as is widely known, was drawn up in Washington in the same year that the Helms Burton Act was imposed, both of them with the shared objective of destroying our Revolution. The European Parliament would appear not to have grasped as yet that, as long as the relic of the common position exists, there will be no normalization of Cuba’s relations with the EU.

On closely analyzing this session of the Euro-chamber it is worth asking what has become of the always-mentioned "democratic principles and plurality" wielded by developed Europe.

Unblushingly, the resolution adopted by the European Parliament "urges European institutions to give their unconditional support to and unreservedly promote a political transition" in Cuba. At the same time, "it urges the immediate engagement of a structured dialogue with Cuban civil society and with those sectors that support a peaceful transition on the island… utilizing the community’s mechanisms for development cooperation."

In other words, it openly calls on European governments to intensify their subversive activities, and on their embassies in Havana to become further implicated in fostering, supporting and funding mercenaries. The resolution unabashedly demands that cooperation projects between the European Commission and Cuba should be utilized for subversive ends.

Within this political circle one cannot but note the stance of the European Socialist Group, which obediently submitted to the most right-wing and anti-Cuban positions. Ramón Jáuregui, vice president of the Spanish socialist group – although these days he is doing his utmost to demonstrate the opposite – went as far as to contradict the line taken by the Spanish presidency of the EU in its Cuba policy.

Even more outrageous is that those representing countries that have cooperated in the kidnapping, torture and detention in clandestine prisons of numerous persons, are elevating themselves as defenders of human rights against Cuba, whose revolution has dedicated its greatest efforts to saving lives at home and abroad.

The European Parliament should be looking at its own community environment, where immigrants are being repressed, the unemployed are forgotten, inequalities are increasing, and hundreds of exposés of torture in its prisons and violations of human rights have been confirmed.

A colonialist metropolis attitude hovered over the European chamber in which many deputies assumed their supposed right to impose and dictate. They would seem to have forgotten that 52 years ago, the Cuban people took hold of the reins of their own destiny and do not concede that Parliament any jurisdiction, far less any moral authority.

They feel that they have the right to meddle in our internal decisions and to question them. In this, the European authorities are merely revealing their real and retrograde colonialist mentality.

To attempt to direct community funds to the dirty task of subverting the political system of another sovereign country without consulting European taxpayers is a totally false form of democracy.

It is lamentable that an institution like this should devote itself to drawing up conspiratorial plots and sheltering mercenaries and criminals, while repeating blatant lies about and ill-intentioned distortions of our country’s reality.

In what would appear to be a sick joke, if it was not about an issue so offensive to our country, the very same Parliament supposedly so concerned about protecting and defending human rights in Cuba, was capable of rejecting by a wide majority two proposed amendments that dealt precisely with such rights.

What are the human rights raised aloft by 439 European deputies who openly opposed a condemnation and lifting of the blockade which, according to the text of the Geneva Convention, constitutes an overt violation of human rights and an act of genocide? Is the right to life not the most elemental of all human rights?

How can be understood that the conclave rejected another amendment referring to the sabotage of the Cubana de Aviación aircraft in 1976 and prefers to remain silent on the colossal hypocrisy constituted by the fact that the United States continues to imprison five Cuban anti-terrorists, while sheltering and protecting the hemisphere’s principal terrorist? Could it be that some lives have more value than others?

With the above they are only exposing their submission to U.S. interests and demonstrating that they lack their own independent policy.

Certain worthy individuals, such as those of the United Left Group, opposed the anti-Cuban resolution. Some of its members, including Spaniard Willy Meyer and Portuguese Ilda Figueiredo, described as hypocritical the Euro-chamber’s stance in questioning Cuba and not questioning the military coup in Honduras. They recalled that this was possibly the only Parliament in the world that failed to reject "the coup, with its killings and torture." They also called on the European Union to end the common position, while demanding an end to the blockade and condemning the unjust incarceration of the five Cuban anti-terrorists in U.S. jails.

Once again those attempting to harass the people of Cuba with the intention of subjecting our island to special treatment are mistaken. What took place in the session of the European Parliament will go down in history as evidence of the continued colonialist mentality of the European states.