Havana, May 1st. - The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, expressed his solidarity with the students of the United States, who have staged pro-Palestinian marches in high-school houses in the northern nation.
On social network X, the president expressed his support for the university students, who have taken the side of justice, have come out to support the cause of the Palestinian people, and are brutally repressed on their own university campuses.
Díaz-Canel stressed on the platform that this 1st May. also goes through Palestine.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez published in X a video illustrating the police repression against American students.
Rodriguez said in X that while the Caribbean nation celebrates International Workers' Day, governments that present themselves as human rights defenders show double standards, repress and prevent the exercise and claim of legitimate rights.
The pro-Palestinian protests started at Columbia University on April 17 and of a few young people gathered, the flame spread to higher education centers in more than 30 states of the northern nation.
On May 1st. the Cuban labor movement condemned the genocide perpetrated by Israeli forces against the Palestinian people in Gaza and denounced the complicity of the United States in the massacre. (Text and photo: PL)
