Pérez Esquivel supports the end of the criminal US blockade of Cuba. Photo: File/RHC
Havana, May 7 (RHC) The campaign of the channel Europe for Cuba “World Tsunami against the Blockade” added this Sunday the voices of organizations and personalities from Latin American countries and the United States, according to the platform of solidarity with the island.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Argentine activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was among those who supported calls for an end to the unjust US economic, commercial and financial siege on the Caribbean nation that had been in place for more than six decades.
The Mexican intellectual Fernando Buen Abad also spoke out against the criminal, inhuman and perverse measure.
“It is important to support any international campaign that addresses the urgency and understands specifying this crime against humanity and this assault on the raison d’être of the human species,” Buen Abad said in a video posted on his Sunday YouTube space was broadcast in Europe by Cuba, which launched the initiative on March 3.
The channel also broadcast messages rejecting the blockade imposed on the island by the Association of Cuban Residents of Mexico “José Martí” and the Cultural Institute “José Martí” of Puebla.
Likewise, Miguel Mármol, a member of the National Council of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front of El Salvador, expressed his participation in the call.
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From the United States, the coordinator of the Solidarity Committee with Cuba and Venezuela in that country, Gloria La Riva (in the photo), denounced that the government of Joseph Biden has maintained the aggressiveness increased by his predecessor in the White House, Donald Trump , who ordered more than 240 measures to intensify the blockade against Cuba.
Likewise, in 2008, the former presidential candidate called for a united voice to condemn the inclusion of the largest island in the Antilles on Washington’s unilateral list of terrorism-supporting countries.
Also on northern soil, Professor Danny Shaw, a researcher at the City University of New York, and activists Erin Feely and Ike Nahem, among others, joined the “tsunami” on behalf of the coalition organizing the United States Standardization Conference in Cuba.
The campaign was accompanied in April from its starting point in Canada by various associations demanding that the fence be lifted.
According to Europe for Cuba, the aim of the initiative is to activate during spring waves of solidarity with the island in the form of a “tsunami” that goes from country to country and from continent to continent in America, Europe, Africa and Asia. . (Source: Latin Press)