Prominent figures from various sectors of Italian society are increasingly joining the call for a national solidarity march with Cuba, which will take place in Rome on Saturday, April 11th.
Marco Papacci, president of the National Association of Italy-Cuba Friendship (Anaic), highlighted the widespread support for this initiative, recently launched by the organization in conjunction with the Gianni Miná Foundation, chaired by Loredana Macchietti, widow of the renowned intellectual and great friend of the island.
The call also has the support of dozens of important groups, including the Global Peace Mobilization Network, the ARCI Social Promotion Association, the Agency for Cultural and Economic Exchange with Cuba (AICEC), the Base Trade Union (USB), and the Communist Party, Papacci specified.
Also joining the call are the Network of Communists, the “La Villetta for Cuba” Association, Socialist Homeland, the Communist Refoundation Party, the Seeds of Peace organization, the Coordination of Solidarity with Cuba, the Committee of Solidarity with Cuba, as well as youth groups and associations of Cubans residing in Italy.
The objective of this massive demonstration, which will begin at 3:00 p.m. that Saturday and march through the streets of the Italian capital, is to reaffirm support for Cuba in the face of the intensification of the US economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed for more than 60 years, to which new genocidal measures have recently been added.
In particular, the call to action condemns the signing by US President Donald Trump on January 29th of an executive order aimed at cutting off oil supplies, based on the false argument that the United States “poses an unusual and extraordinary threat to the security of the United States.”
This alleged threat, the call states, “could only be considered as such from a moral standpoint, given the solidarity that country offers,” citing as an example the medical assistance provided by Cuban doctors to Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Among the signatories of the call to this march are international figures such as Argentine Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and the prominent Brazilian theologian, intellectual, and social activist Frei Betto.
Among the Italian signatories are politician and writer Alessandro di Battista; Among those present were MP Angelo Bonelli, leader of the Green Europe party and national secretary of the Communist Refoundation Party; Maurizio Acerbo; the clergyman Alex Zanotelli; and the renowned singer and actress Fiorella Mannoia.
Also included were former UN Deputy Secretary-General Pino Arlacchi; ambassadors Elena Basile and Alberto Bradanini; scientific researcher Fabrizio Chiodo; former mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris; Olympic pentathlon champion Daniele Masala; and MEPs Valentina Ferlan and Carolina Morace.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
