Havana, May 29 (Prensa Latina) In different cities around the world solidarity demonstrations with Cuba and against the U.S. economic blockade took place this weekend. Cuban authorities expressed their gratitude toward these manifestations.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said on Twitter that in the face of hatred and constant aggressions, friends and compatriots crowded avenues in a day characterized by love and solidarity.

“How much pride and gratitude for each of these voices that rose and to show that Cuba is not alone!” the president added on the social network, also using the hashtag #MejorSinBloqueo.

Likewise, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero demanded the end of the “criminal blockade”, which affects the country, and thanked the people who support Cuba.

While the Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, pointed out the demand for the elimination of Cuba from the list of countries that supposedly sponsor terrorism or do not make sufficient efforts to fight it.

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Belgrade, May 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Ambassador to Serbia Leyde Rodriguez Hernandez on Monday attended a forum-debate against the United States blockade against Cuba, held at the capital’s Social Center ZaCin, a diplomatic source informed.

Rodriguez Hernandez explained the history and evolution of the US economic campaign against Cuba during different periods of the Cuban Revolution.

He also referred to the severe impacts of the blockade, whose economic, financial and commercial damage exceeds 150.41 billion dollars and, taking into account the depreciation of the dollar against gold, that figure amounts to one trillion dollars, he pointed out.

The diplomat condemned Cuba’s reincorporation on the so-called State Sponsors of Terrorism list by the Donald Trump administration, which has created more difficulties for foreign investors in Europe and other continents.

The aforementioned list, moreover, is illegal, arbitrary, spurious and contrary to international law, the ambassador denounced.

He answered several questions on Cuba’s economic transformations, trade, new forms of property and foreign investments, the life of Cubans, their current reality, his country’s relations with Russia, China, Vietnam, and global geopolitics.

The ambassador thanked the organizers of the “No! Sanction” campaign (https://no-sanctions.net/) for their solidarity, whose platform mentions his country.

The platform also includes other nations that suffer from unilateral sanctions by the United States and are presented as international, although they are unilateral measures.

The diplomat also recalled that on April 3, 2023, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning “the harmful impact of unilateral coercive measures on human rights.”

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Brussels, May 26 (Prensa Latina) French MEP Leïla Chaibi on Friday called on the European Union (EU) to stand by Cuba’s side in its fight against the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States.

The member of the Left-wing Group in the European Parliament (The LEFT) made the call in a message, regarding the installation in Havana on Friday of the 3rd EU-Cuba Joint Council.

I take the opportunity of this context to reiterate my total rejection of the US blockade, which does so much damage to Cubans, Chaibi, who is also a member of the Europe-Latin America Delegation (Eurolat), stressed.

Chaibi, a member of La France Insoumise (LFI), considered that the meeting in Havana is a major event in view of the implementation of the EU-Cuba Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement, signed in 2016.

We are at an essential stage for the materialization of this Agreement, which promotes a relationship based on cooperation, solidarity and mutual assistance and development, she explained.

In recent days, other MEPs, including Manu Pineda from Spain, Sandra Pereira from Portugal, and Massimiliano Smeriglio from Italy, have called for the full enforcement of the Agreement and the end of Washington’s blockade and its extraterritorial scope.

Likewise, the parliamentarians wished success to the third EU-Cuba Joint Council, for which the high representative of the community bloc for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, traveled to Havana.

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Havana, May 27 (Prensa Latina) Delegations of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) will lead a caravan in Havana against the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba.

Nearly 90 young people from thirty countries will march from the floating dock in Old Havana in demand of an end to the blockade.

As part of the activities of the General Council of the WFDY, which is meeting in Havana, a Mission of Solidarity with Cuba was inaugurated on the 24th to end the blockade and any imperialist interference wherever it may be committed, the Juventud Rebelde newspaper reported.

The final session of the General Council will be held this Sunday at the Fidel Castro Center, an institution dedicated to the study of the life and work of the historic leader.

The WFDY was founded on November 10th, 1945 in Budapest in opposition to fascism, and adopted a commitment to peace. It is currently represented by 136 organizations from 97 countries.

According to Cuban authorities, the blockade has intensified in recent years to unprecedented levels, and an example of this is that Cuba registered losses of 3,806.5 million dollars from August 2021 to February 2022.

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Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez stated that the interventionist and dominant interests of the United States have a high humanitarian cost, which has caused the death of millions of people.

The head of Cuban diplomacy posted on Twitter data showing that at least 4.5 million people have died due to the wars waged by the United States in its alleged crusade against terrorism since 2001, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University reported.

The report “reviews the latest research to examine the causal pathways that led to an estimated 3.7 million indirect deaths in post-9/11 conflicts,” when a terrorist attack in New York killed nearly 3,000 people.

Although the exact number of deaths is unknown, the analysis estimates that the total death toll from those wars could be at least 4.5 million.

The so-called war on terrorism began after the September 11 attacks in the United States, and under the pretext of eliminating radical groups, human rights violations have been committed against the affected populations, and dozens of international agreements have been ignored, the expert stated.

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