It was the revolutionary response of the people before Washington´s
aggressive maneuvers backed by its allies when Cuba was excluded from the
Organization of American States, OAS in the 8th Meeting of Foreign
Ministers in Punta del Este, Uruguay on January 31st.

With the pretext of that agreement, US President John F. Kennedy decreed a
total commercial blockade against the island on February 3rd, later
tightened with the Torricelli Act and Helms Burton Law in the 1990´s.

The Declaration denounced not only the aggressive maneuver against Cuba
and the level of dependence of other Latin American nations, but the
essence of the US domination and exploitation and misery of millions of
people in the continent.

As stated on the 2nd Declaration: “A great ideological battle was achieved
in Punta del Este between the Cuban Revolution and US imperialism”. Cuba
represented the peoples and the US the monopolies; Cuba the exploited
masses and the US defended the exploiters; Cuba sovereignty and the US
interventionism; Cuba for the nationalization of the foreign companies and
the US for investments and ignorance.

Summarizing, the US was in favor of aggression and war, Cuba for
socialism, struggle and total independence.

The Declaration argued that the national bourgeoisies were incapable of
heading the fight against foreign domination although its interests are
contradictory; they are paralyzed for fear of a social revolution and
scared for the clamor of the exploited masses.

The 2nd Declaration of Havana was a look at the future, it offered a
lesson that the Cuban people were saying that the Revolution was possible.
Half a century later the events confirmed its validity.