Hundreds of Spaniards demonstrated on Sunday against a US military intervention in Cuba, while reiterating their condemnation of the White House’s economic strangulation of the island.
Gathered in front of the Cuban Embassy in Madrid, solidarity activists spoke out against the Washington blockade, intensified by preventing other countries from exporting fuel to the Caribbean nation, in addition to numerous other restrictions.
In this attempt to literally encircle Cuba, the group also deplored the inclusion of the Caribbean nation on the list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism, according to the Trump administration.
Araceli Escudero, leader of the State Coordinating Committee for Solidarity with Cuba in Madrid, told Prensa Latina that the initiative seeks to denounce the US harassment of the island, which is going through a critical period.
“We want the United States to leave Cuba in peace once and for all and lift the oil embargo. We are against the blockade, against its inclusion on the aforementioned list, because Cuba is a country that has been resisting for a long time,” he stated.
Escudero, who is also a member of the Bolivarian Solidarity Platform in Spain, pointed out that after the military intervention in Venezuela on January 3, “what we want is for them not to dare attack Cuba, to lift the entire oil embargo, and to let the Cuban people live.”
“We stand with Cuba and we will do everything possible to support this heroic nation and prevent an invasion,” he added.
He noted that solidarity and friendship groups with Cuba in Spain “are also asking for the support of governments, because Russia has been the only one to send an oil tanker, which has a limited lifespan.”
Diplomats from the Cuban Embassy in this capital later left the legation to thank the demonstrators for their support of the island and their condemnation of the suffocating actions by the United States.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
