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| 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”
AV DICK EMANUELSSON
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 4th.
“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.
