By Ankhondo a Mtendere, December 30, 2022
Boti lolimbana ndi zida za nyukiliya la Golden Rule lili paulendo wopita ku Cuba. Bwato lamatabwa lamatabwa, lomwe linayenda ku Marshall Islands mu 1958 kuti lisokoneze kuyesa kwa nyukiliya ku US, linanyamuka kuchokera ku Key West, Florida Lachisanu m'mawa, ndipo lidzafika ku Hemingway Marina ku Havana Loweruka m'mawa, tsiku la New Years Eve. Ketch ya 34-foot ndi ya Veterans For Peace, ndipo imagwiritsa ntchito cholinga chake "kuthetsa mpikisano wa zida ndi kuchepetsa ndi kuthetsa zida za nyukiliya."
Mamembala asanuwa adzaphatikizidwa ndi mamembala a Veterans For Peace omwe akuwulukira ku Havana kuti akachite nawo pulogalamu yamaphunziro ndi Chikhalidwe yoyendetsedwa ndi Pafupi ndi Cuba bungwe loyendera alendo. Omenyera nkhondowa ayenderanso madera omwe adawonongeka kwambiri ndi mphepo yamkuntho yaposachedwa ya Ian, yomwe idawononga nyumba masauzande ambiri m'chigawo cha Pinar del Rio kumadzulo kwa Cuba. Anyamula thandizo lothandizira anthu omwe nyumba zawo zidawonongeka.
"Tili pa ntchito yophunzitsa ndi kuthandiza anthu," akutero Woyang'anira Project wa Golden Rule Helen Jaccard. “Tili miyezi itatu ndi theka paulendo wapanyanja wa miyezi 15, makilomita 11,000 kuzungulira ‘Great Loop’ yapakati pa kumadzulo, kum’mwera, ndi kumpoto chakum’maŵa kwa United States. Titawona kuti tidzakhala ku Key West, Florida kumapeto kwa December, tinati, 'Taonani, Cuba ili pamtunda wa makilomita 90 okha! Ndipo dziko linatsala pang’ono kumenyana ndi dziko la Cuba.’”
Zaka 60 zapitazo, mu Okutobala 1962, dziko lapansi lidayandikira moyipa nkhondo yanyukiliya yothetsa chitukuko panthawi yankhondo yamphamvu kwambiri pakati pa US ndi Soviet Union, yomwe idayika zida zanyukiliya pafupi ndi malire, ku Turkey ndi Cuba, motsatana. CIA idakonzanso nkhondo ku Cuba poyesa kulanda boma la Fidel Castro.
"Zaka makumi asanu ndi limodzi pambuyo pake, dziko la US likusungabe vuto lazachuma ku Cuba, kusokoneza chitukuko cha chuma cha Cuba ndikubweretsa mavuto kwa mabanja aku Cuba," adatero Gerry Condon, purezidenti wakale wa Veterans For Peace, ndi ena mwa ogwira nawo ntchito omwe akupita ku Cuba. "Dziko lonse limatsutsa kutsekereza kwa US ku Cuba ndipo nthawi yakwana yoti ithe." Chaka chino ndi US ndi Israel okha omwe adavotera Ayi pachigamulo cha UN chopempha boma la US kuti lithetse kutsekereza kwa Cuba.
"Tsopano mikangano ya US / Russia pa Ukraine yadzutsanso mantha ankhondo yanyukiliya," adatero Gerry Condon. "Zinali zokambirana zachangu pakati pa Purezidenti wa US John Kennedy ndi mtsogoleri waku Russia Nikita Khruschev zomwe zidathetsa Vuto la Mizinga yaku Cuba ndikupulumutsa dziko lonse kunkhondo yanyukiliya," adatero Condon. "Ndiwo mtundu wa diplomacy womwe tikufuna lero."
Veterans For Peace akufuna kuti kutha kwa kutsekeka kwa US ku Cuba, Kuyimitsa Moto ndi Zokambirana Zothetsa Nkhondo ku Ukraine, komanso Kuthetsa Zida Zanyukiliya Zonse.
