Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Feb 13.- More than thirty trade union and labor organizations from over a dozen countries reaffirmed today their support for the largest of the Antilles in a solidarity meeting held at the headquarters of the Workers' Union of Cuba(CTC, for its acronym in Spanish) in this capital.
Through videoconference, representatives from groups in nations such as Mexico, Canada, Spain, Argentina, and the United States extended their support to the Cuban people in the face of the tightening and energy persecution by the Trump administration with the signing of an executive order declaring a supposed national emergency and authorizing the imposition of commercial tariffs on oil exports from third countries to Cuba.
Osnay Miguel Colina Rodríguez, president of the Organizing Commission for the XXII CTC Congress, highlighted the absurdity of these arguments put forward by the U.S. government in its intention to cause economic asphyxiation and suffering for thousands of workers and their families.
In this way, Colina Rodríguez insisted that Cuba is not a failed state, as claimed in the message that enemies of the Revolution try to position to legitimize external interference, but rather there is a policy of maximum pressure that hinders access to basic resources, although decisions continue to be made to avoid paralyzing essential activities and services and thus defend, in the current adverse conditions, the main human right: the right to life.
He also thanked the support and shared history with many of the organizations present at the meeting, with its most recent example being the support provided after the impact of Hurricane Melissa in the eastern provinces.
Along these lines, he referred to the risks posed by the increasingly frequent incidence of extreme events as a consequence of climate change and the difficulties posed by the U.S. siege when it comes to restoring the considerable material damage caused by them, and the weight of this situation on the well-being of families, which entails incalculable and unjustifiable human harm.
Faced with the threat, he specified, friendly voices have risen from multiple latitudes, demonstrating that it is possible to appeal to the best of the human being in the face of barbarism.
The heroic people of Cuba desire peace but will know how to fight and will not submit to defeat or to pressures that threaten their hard-won sovereignty, he concluded.
Also present in the room were other members of the Organizing Commission for the XXII CTC Congress and the general secretaries of the 15 national unions.
Friends from around the world agreed on the need to prepare and distribute audiovisual clips with messages of support for the population, thus demonstrating the solidarity that transcends borders and showing how the just demands of Cubans find echoes around the planet. (Source: ACN)
