The historic leader of the Dominican left, Iván Rodríguez, today highlighted the 50th anniversary of relations between Cuba and the first four independent Caribbean states: Jamaica, Guyana, Barbuda and Trinidad and Tobago.
Santo Domingo, December 5 (RHC) The historic leader of the Dominican left, Iván Rodríguez, today highlighted the 50th anniversary of relations between Cuba and the first four independent Caribbean states: Jamaica, Guyana, Barbuda and Trinidad and Tobago.
Speaking to Prensa Latina, Rodríguez stressed the importance of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel’s visit to several Caribbean countries, which will end in Barbados, the venue for the VIII Summit of the Cuban-Caribbean Community (Caricom). “CARICOM has maintained a very dignified policy of good neighborliness and relations with Cuba, not bowing to insinuations and threats from the United States to join the group of countries against the Cuban brethren,” he added.
These countries, he said, strongly emphasized that the Caribbean was a sovereign territory and a zone of peace that would not yield to blackmail and threats to any power.
The famous combatant of this nation, one of the promoters of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caribbean, pointed out that the relations between Cuba and Caricom “have led to an increase in friendship, exchange and solidarity in their solidarity fight against the criminal blockade by the nation of the North”.
“It is these relationships that unite peoples, that is why the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, with his medical brigades, was one of the first to send aid and medicines in every event that affected any country or region of the world. ‘ he showed.
He highlighted the creation by Fidel Castro of the Latin American University of Medicine, from which “so many countries in our region have benefited and thousands of students have graduated with scholarships from this center and are today an important force in the defense of health”.
Cuba does not give what is left, he stressed, but shares what little it has with its brothers, and the Caribbean can give faith and witness to the greatness of the Cuban Revolution.
Also the leader of the Homeland for All movement, today and always he reiterated his commitment to Cuba.
CARICOM was born on July 4, 1973 with the signing of the Chaguaramas Treaty by 15 countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Monserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.