Cuban plazas will be, this coming May 1st, platforms from which the people of this archipelago, with proletarian strength, will defend their right to be a free, independent, sovereign and peaceful land.
Accompanied by hundreds of friends from around the world who have come to the Island to share in the daily resistance of a country that overcomes all the difficulties imposed upon it to suffocate it, the working masses will take to the streets the same conviction they have shown with their signatures for the Homeland in recent days. Friends of solidarity have seen it, and have said so.
It is “the most solidarity-minded people on the planet,” affirmed Alejandra Chavira, from Mexico; “It’s proof that a world other than one of imposition and bombs is possible,” commented Italian Roberto Forte. Both are part of a group of 70 who, just a few hours ago, were traveling through the hills and hamlets of eastern Cuba, immersed in “the wellspring that is the Cuban Revolution,” in the words of Michelle Curto of the Italian Agency for Cultural and Economic Exchange with Cuba.
Curto herself called it “the island where we must grow and thrive,” and for this reason, she brought together activists from Italy, Venezuela, Mexico, the United States, France, Switzerland, and Cubans living abroad who, as part of the second May Day Solidarity Convoy, visited communities in Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo.
Meanwhile, in Havana, others are experiencing and marveling at the reality. This was the scene on Monday at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), with representatives from the 19th International Brigade of Voluntary Work and Solidarity with Cuba, May Day, and the Che Guevara Contingent.
Josefina Guillo, representative of the Cuba-France Association, stated that, both for her and for the organization, it is very important to be present on the eve of the celebrations for International Workers’ Day and the centennial of the birth of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.
“We admire the strength of the Cuban people, their capacity for resilience despite the difficulties,” she emphasized; and Ian Müller, a member of the student delegation from the Socialist Party of Germany, gratefully echoed her sentiments: “The strongest weapon the Cuban people have is international solidarity and friendship with other nations.”
Alongside the good people of Cuba, in the plazas of the country, they will be. The causes that Cuba defends are the causes of the peoples of the world. It is a Martí lesson that runs in his blood: “Homeland is humanity.”
IMAGE CREDIT: Author: International Desk | internacionales@granma.cu
[ SOURCE: GRANMA ]
