Stop the killing of Cuba’s people, President Donald Trump!

MARIA SANDBLAD, journalist with knowledge and experience of working in Cuba since the 1970s, and KRISTINA HILLGREN, psychologist also with deep knowledge of the Caribbean pearl that is threatened by being completely sonically annexed by today's neo-colonial heirs to James Monroe's motto of "America for the Americans", who rejected the America beyond the borders of the then young republic that arose on July 4, 1776.

From Stockholm to Donald Trump on the USA's 250th Independence Day with the demand to leave Cuba in peace:

Stop the killing of Cuba’s people!

This message is sent from Stockholm, Sweden, to Washington, D.C. USA, addressing President Donald Trump, leader of the world’s largest economic and military power.

Mr. President, we know that you with a stroke of your pen can change matters. Please pick up the pen and cancel the oil embargo!

The world will thank you.

Your decision will save so many lives. Surgeries that have been halted because of power shortages can resume, and new operations can begin. Kidney dialysis machines, incubators and neonatal intensive care units can function again.

Cuban homes and transport systems can work once more.

We know you can make this happen!

With best regards from Sweden,

KRISTINA HILLGREN,

Psychologist, Psychiatry and Toxicology, Contact with Cuba since 2001 (kristina.hillgren@live.se)

MARIA SANDBLAD, journalist, author, Music and Culture, contact with Cuba since 1970 mariasandblad@hotmail.com

VIDEO: Kristina Hillgren

https://vimeo.com/1207512954

Cuba “is a threat to the US because it has another system operating which is not capitalism in the way the US performs”

 

Sven Britton is a physician and professor emeritus.

Cuba “is a threat to the US because it has another system operating which is not capitalism in the way the US performs”

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STOCKHOLM / 2026-07-04 / Sven Britton is a physician and professor emeritus. He has worked as a professor of infectious diseases at Karolinska Institute In Stockholm, in Ethiopia, Ghana and Cuba. Britton has also been a member of parliament for the Social Democrats. Below is his speech on America's Independence Day, July 4^th.

“It has been threatened by this trading embargo that it has suffered under during 62 years, by Cuba is in understandable and certainly unacceptable for us. Cuba represents only about 3% of the US population in a small country and it has no natural resources, that the US is in demand of.

Why is it threatened by this little country which is its nearest neighbor?

I think it is because this country did achieve something which is remarkable despite the, fact that it has little economic forces. They managed to have free education in the country, they have also an excellent medical care, that they can make their own medicine and they can export medicines to the neighboring countries. And they can export doctors to neighboring countries.

This small country with its small resources managed things that the much larger US has, not managed. It had a lower mortality of its children than the US had at least until five years ago. We are impressed by Cuba, what is achieved.

Of course, it is a threat to the US because it has another system operating which is, of course not capitalism in the way the US performs. We think for this reason that it has been followed and threatened by this trading embargo, and now even worse they have stopped the oil export to Cuba.

So, they have no electricity and no power to confirm for ordinary daily living and for hospital care and things. It is a strangulation of a country that is already strangulated and we are appalled by the Swedish government that says nothing against this.

Of course, this is much more difficult now, we are members of NATO and the leading country, of NATO is the US so we don't dare to say anything that is against what the US is doing now.

But here we are some Swedish people, it's not only us here, but that are reacting against, what the US does to Cuba at present time. We want to express this on the US national day which is celebrated in a very pompous way now. But at the back yard of this is what the US does to Cuba, strangling an already strangled small country.

We protest against this and we do it in front of the Swedish parliament who has been quiet, despite all the suffering that Cuba is now exposed to. We thank you for listening to us.

 

VIDEO: Sven Britton

https://vimeo.com/1207512953