By Veterans rau Kev Kaj Siab, Kaum Hlis 30, 2022
Lub keeb kwm Golden Txoj Cai tiv thaiv nuclear sailboat yog nyob rau hauv nws txoj kev mus rau teb chaws Cuba. Lub nkoj uas muaj cov ntoo, uas tau caij nkoj mus rau Marshall Islands xyoo 1958 los cuam tshuam nrog Asmeskas kev sim nuclear, tau caij nkoj los ntawm Key West, Florida rau hnub Friday sawv ntxov, thiab yuav tuaj txog ntawm Hemingway Marina hauv Havana rau hnub Saturday sawv ntxov, Xyoo Tshiab Eve hnub. Lub 34-ko taw ketch belongs rau Veterans For Peace, thiab siv nws lub luag haujlwm "kom xaus kev sib tw caj npab thiab txo qis thiab thaum kawg tshem tawm riam phom nuclear."
Tsib tus neeg ua haujlwm yuav tau koom nrog Veterans For Peace cov tswv cuab uas ya mus rau Havana los koom rau hauv kev kawm txuj ci Arts & Culture koom tes los ntawm Qhov ze Cuba lub koom haum ncig saib. Cov qub tub rog tseem yuav mus xyuas cov zej zog uas raug kev puas tsuaj loj los ntawm nag xob nag cua Ian tsis ntev los no, uas tau rhuav tshem ntau txhiab lub tsev hauv Pinar del Rio xeev nyob rau sab hnub poob Cuba. Lawv tab tom nqa kev pab tib neeg rau cov neeg uas poob lawv tsev.
"Peb tab tom ua haujlwm rau kev kawm thiab tib neeg txoj haujlwm," hais tias Golden Rule Project Manager Helen Jaccard. "Peb yog peb-thiab-ib-ib-lub hlis mus rau 15-hli, 11,000 mais kev caij nkoj ncig ntawm 'Great Loop' ntawm nruab nrab sab hnub poob, sab qab teb, thiab sab qaum teb Tebchaws Meskas. Thaum peb pom peb yuav nyob hauv Key West, Florida thaum kawg lub Kaum Ob Hlis, peb hais tias, 'Saib, Cuba tsuas yog 90 mais deb! Thiab lub ntiaj teb yuav luag muaj kev tsov rog nuclear dhau Cuba.'
60 xyoo dhau los, thaum Lub Kaum Hli 1962, lub ntiaj teb tau tuaj ze rau kev ua tsov ua rog-kawg nuclear tsov rog thaum lub sij hawm muaj kev sib ntaus sib tua ntawm US thiab Soviet Union, uas tau tso cov foob pob hluav taws nyob ze ntawm txhua tus ciam teb, hauv Turkey thiab Cuba, raws li. CIA kuj tau teeb tsa kev ua tub rog ntawm Teb Chaws Cuba hauv kev sim ua phem los rhuav tshem tsoomfwv Fidel Castro.
Gerry Condon, yav dhau los tus thawj tswj hwm ntawm Veterans For Peace, thiab ib feem ntawm cov neeg coob uas caij nkoj mus rau Cuba tau hais tias "Sau caum xyoo tom qab, Tebchaws Asmeskas tseem tswj hwm kev lag luam phem ntawm Cuba, ua rau Cuba txoj kev txhim kho kev lag luam thiab ua rau muaj kev txom nyem rau Cuban tsev neeg," "Tag nrho lub ntiaj teb no tawm tsam US blockade ntawm Cuba thiab nws yog lub sijhawm rau nws xaus." Xyoo no tsuas yog Asmeskas thiab cov neeg Ixayees tau pov npav Tsis muaj nyob rau hauv UN txoj kev daws teeb meem hu rau tsoomfwv Meskas kom xaus nws qhov kev thaiv tebchaws Cuba.
Gerry Condon tau hais tias "Tam sim no US/Russia standoff dhau Ukraine tau tsa ib qho kev xav ntawm kev ua tsov rog nuclear," Gerry Condon hais. "Nws yog kev sib tham sai sai ntawm Asmeskas Thawj Tswj Hwm John Kennedy thiab tus thawj coj Lavxias Nikita Khruschev uas daws Cuban Missile Crisis thiab cawm lub ntiaj teb kev tsov rog nuclear," Condon txuas ntxiv. "Nov yog hom kev diplomacy uas peb xav tau hnub no."
Veterans For Peace yog hu kom xaus rau US blockade ntawm Cuba, rau ib tug Ceasefire thiab kev sib tham kom xaus tsov rog nyob rau hauv Ukraine, thiab rau tag nrho Abolition ntawm Nuclear Riam phom.
