Santiago de Cuba, July 23 (ACN) With the aim of highlighting the struggle for peace and contributing to better communication between the nations of the region, the Caribbean Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and Just Cause at the Universidad de Orientefrom this city.
According to Noemí Rabaza, first vice president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with Peoples, the Antillean nation is a reference for global solidarity and continues to build a prosperous and sustainable socialism, a principle that it will never renounce.
He thanked the combative commitment of the fraternal friends of the Caribbean State and the Cuban Revolution in overcoming all kinds of threats, limitations and difficulties.
He pointed out the need to create a collective consciousness against imperialism and to defend peace, sovereignty, development and social justice, as well as to achieve the full independence of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Odexa Fuentes, Coordinator of the programs and objectives of the government in Santiago de Cubasaid the meeting will be a place to reaffirm cultural, historical and fraternal ties between the states of the region.
With this south-eastern territory, the Caribbean represents a cultural bastion where events such as the Fiesta del Fuego stand out, in which representatives of popular expressions take part in order to spread and preserve the most authentic traditions, he stressed.
David Dennis from Barbados and Director of the Caribbean Solidarity Network with Cuba reiterated that the movements will continue to organize actions to condemn the economic, trade and financial blockade imposed by the United States and to demand its end and the island’s exclusion from the list of countries that support terrorism.
He called for a resolution to denounce any form of interference in the affairs of the peoples of the world.
The meeting, held as part of the 70th anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, will be attended by representatives from Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Peru and other countries.
