San José, July 18 (Prensa Latina) “Cuba is the beginning of many struggles and the end of all defeatism,” Spanish journalist Txema Sánchez said today in a commentary addressing a Costa Rican solidarity campaign with the island.
“Those who give us their best without asking for an answer are not dismissed. Those who gave us a cultural revolution and the hope of being free and dignified are respected,” added the producer of television programs for social media, in a commentary addressed to the solidarity crusade “An Embrace to Cuba,” led by award-winning Costa Rican journalist Rafael Ugalde.
The member of the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity also considered Cuba “the sister, the beacon, the guide, the revolutionary truth” in his text supporting the Costa Rican campaign coordinated with the Love for Cuba-Costa Rica Solidarity Movement.
Txema Sánchez compared the Cuban Revolution to “a comrade in struggle and in the trenches who is never surrendered. A beacon and a symbol of solidarity is never abandoned. Those who pave the way out are never forgotten. Those who give their lives and sacrifice themselves for the truth of all are never lied to.”
To Cuba, the sister, the beacon, the guide, the revolutionary truth, to our admired and beloved Cuba – he declared – we owe all that and much more.
“Long live Cuba and its permanent Revolution,” the Spanish journalist cheered. “Long live the heroic resistance of the Cuban people and their constitutional and legitimate government, for upholding a more humane way of life. Never abandon Cuba,” he urged. “More than ever, it needs our fraternity.”
The “A Hug to Cuba” campaign, which received Txema Sánchez’s comment, was launched the day before by journalist Ugalde, along with a call to his country and the rest of the world to defend the people and government of the Caribbean island.
The lawyer, former journalist for the University Weekly and former correspondent for Prensa Latina in Costa Rica, called for this crusade along with other supportive friends to condemn the US economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Havana and reject a July 11 motion against Cuba by the Costa Rican Congress.
“The idea, coordinated with local leaders of solidarity with that country, is for the people and friends of Cuba in all nations—be it Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia, the United States, and Spain—to be able to express our feelings against the infamy and lies leveled against them,” Ugalde explained to Prensa Latina.
“At the same time,” he added, “we express our admiration for the Cuban people and their Revolution, without any mediation other than the dictates of the conscience of young people, honest women, and men around the world.”
“My face is burning with shame,” Ugalde wrote in a recent article published in the Costa Rican online magazine Surcos, in which he criticizes “the 40 deputies of the Legislative Assembly who supported the motion against Cuba.”
The journalistic text praises “the Cuba of Fidel and Martí” and considers the tightening of the blockade and the constant attacks against the island “as part of the Zionism and Nazi-fascism promoted by the White House.”
Rafa Ugalde (1949), as he is well known in the local media, ratified his position against the document.
“I’ll start by clarifying,” he clarified, “that I had two options when reading the Legislative Assembly’s motion against the Cuban people, because it’s no secret that they’re having a tough time, due to the fierce blockade, intensified by the Nazi-fascist Trump administration.”
“Or I would remain silent, complicit and cowardly,” I told myself, “as political parties, trade unions, popular movements, intellectuals, and professionals, once unconditional defenders of the people and their just causes, have been doing until now.
“Or I raise my voice against the accomplices and cowards who, with their significant silence, attack Cuba and the peoples of the world, alongside those who fight for their freedom and independence.”
In his article, Ugalde criticized local organizations “that constitute a point of convergence for Zionists, defenders of the child killers in Gaza, great exponents of Nazi-style chauvinism, as well as the modern fascism strategically spread throughout Our America.”
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