The XXVI. Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum, held from June 29 to July 2, 2023 in the city of Brasilia, passed a resolution in solidarity with Cuba, recognizing “the United States government’s constant and systematic hostility towards Cuba.” manifested itself in the unprecedented tightening of the economic, trade and financial blockade” as well as “its extraterritorial character with the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act”.
The text confirms that this US policy constitutes “the main obstacle to the socio-economic development of the Cuban nation, an attack on its sovereignty and a blatant violation of the principles of international law”.
Representatives of the political parties of the Latin American and Caribbean left, as well as progressive movements in the region, agreed to “demand the unconditional lifting by the United States of the criminal and intensified economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.” Government for more than 6 decades”.
They also demanded the exclusion of Cuba from the illegal and false list of countries that support terrorism and the return to the Cuban people of the territory illegally occupied by the Guantanamo Naval Base, which has been usurped by the United States government for more than 120 years.
Rejecting the programs of subversion, destabilization and media warfare against the largest of the Antilles, they agreed to “spread the truth about Cuba in contrast to US government-sponsored media campaigns that systematically defame and misrepresent Cuban reality and conceal the truth.” Achievements of the Revolution”.
The document supports the “Cuban Revolution based on the principles of solidarity, social justice, internationalism and the unity of our peoples.” It also supports the efforts made from the homeland of José Martí “for the unity, integration and realization of the Peace of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples”.
Delegates also agreed to systematically and urgently develop public and media mobilization actions to condemn the aggressive escalation of Yankee imperialism against the Cuban people.
The support resolution states: “Despite the restrictions imposed on Cuba by the policy of economic siege, its socialist revolution, without resorting to neoliberal recipes, has achieved that its people enjoy fundamental rights and freedoms for the full development of all Cubans. Renunciation of the internationalist practice that “has contributed to the development of human rights in many countries around the world”.
In this context, the participants of the XXVI. FSP expressed their firm solidarity and commitment to “the Communist Party of Cuba, the revolutionary government and the Cuban people in their efforts to preserve the sovereignty and independence of the country and to uphold unalterably the decision to build socialism”.
Finally, the document recalls the legacy of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz’s struggle against US imperialism and its allies, quoting him: “If the enemy is powerful in its resources, in its aggression, in its wickedness, then we have it. “We must be stronger than him in our dignity, in our revolutionary strength, in our conviction, in our faith, in our courage!”
This edition of the Sao Paulo Forum took place after a three-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Its central motto was “Regional integration to promote the sovereignty of Latin America and the Caribbean”.
SOLIDARITY RESOLUTION WITH CUBA
XXVI. MEETING OF THE SAO PAULO FORUM
FROM JUNE 29 TO JULY 2, 2023
BRASILIA
The XXVI. Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum, held from June 29 to July 2, 2023 in the city of Brasilia, adopted the following Solidarity Resolution with Cuba based on the following considerations:
Given the United States Government’s constant and systematic hostility towards Cuba, manifested in the unprecedented tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade and its extraterritorial nature through the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, which constitute the most important an obstacle to the socio-economic development of the Cuban nation, an attack on its sovereignty and a flagrant violation of the principles of international law,
WE ARRANGED:
In the struggle against US imperialism and its allies, let us unite our actions with the legacy of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz: “If the enemy is mighty in his resources, in his aggression, in his wickedness, we must be more powerful than him in our dignity, in our revolutionary strength, in our conviction, in our faith, in our courage!”
Brasilia, July 2, 2023.