The search for greater effectiveness in countering the economic suffocation and the communications campaign against Cuba is among the topics discussed at the solidarity gathering in the Mexican capital.
This was stated to Prensa Latina by the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Fernando González, when referring to the sessions of the IX Continental Meeting of Solidarity with the Caribbean nation, which began Thursday and will conclude on Sunday, the 12th.
“We will seek to debate how to be more effective in our communications efforts at a time when Cuba is not only facing a brutal intensification of the economic siege,” said the Hero of the Republic and one of the Cuban Five.
He mentioned that this reality is combined with a communications campaign to make the island’s people, which is the main objective, but also many around the world believe that the situation in the Caribbean nation is due to alleged inefficiency in the government’s management.
“These are two lines that feed off each other: economic suffocation and the communications campaign. How the solidarity movement with Cuba can be more effective in countering these campaigns” and the campaign against medical collaboration are being discussed during these days in Mexico City.
Fernando highlighted the meeting as a space to outline work for the future, in terms of ways to better unify the work of solidarity organizations in defending Cuba’s right to be free, sovereign and independent, and in the fight against the blockade imposed by the United States.
He also highlighted the demand to remove the island from Washington’s unilateral list of states that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
The president of ICAP alluded to how the solidarity movement, in addition to its political and moral support, under the current circumstances, can become a source of support in the search for solutions that allow for alternatives in promoting small-scale production capacities.
“In supporting the change in the energy matrix in our country and — as has been done — also supporting our healthcare system with the supplies that have been provided by the solidarity movement,” he added.
González referred to other causes dear to Cuba and the solidarity movement, such as the denunciation of the genocide committed by Israel in Gaza and support for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, as well as the rejection of the U.S. military presence in the Caribbean.
The meeting, which brings together the solidarity movement in the region following the previous event held in 2016 in the Dominican Republic, is being attended by more than 250 delegates from 27 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Spain, Lebanon and the United States.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
