Mexico City, Jan 21 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, Eugenio Martínez, and the president of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Pedro Vázquez, reaffirmed today the historic ties of friendship between both countries.
During a meeting at the legislative body, Vázquez recalled moments of the bilateral relationship, forged “in a shared cause” with references to Mexico’s role in “giving refuge, strength and horizons to the Cuban Revolution and the preparations for the Granma yacht’s journey of freedom.”
He added that Cuba and Mexico recognize each other as sister nations and “there is no blockade, no sanction, no external pressure that can break a brotherhood forged in dignity.”
“Our friendship is not circumstantial. It is political, historical, and profoundly human,” he asserted.
According to a press release from the Embassy, Martínez referred, for his part, to the symbolism of holding the session in the Gilberto Bosques room and conveyed that it is also a concrete expression of the indestructible relationship between the two countries.
He recalled that without the support of Bosques and other Mexicans who played a leading role in the effort to offer refuge, support and affection to the Cuban revolutionaries, history might not have been the same, and he referred to the dangers and threats currently facing the largest of the Antilles, our region and the world.
He also alluded to the words of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who characterized this new stage as an “era of barbarism, neocolonialism and fascism.”
The diplomat called for unity and closing ranks to save the dignity of Latin America and the Caribbean and recalled the glorious pages written by Mexico in this regard in recent times, in accordance with its Constitution and the principles of its foreign policy.
During the meeting, deputies Ana Corina Rojo, Maribel Martínez, Olga Lidia Herrera, María Isidra de la Luz and Jorge Armando Ortiz also spoke, expressing their solidarity with the people of Cuba and their rejection of the “criminal and ominous” blockade imposed by the United States.
In the room, phrases such as “talking about Cuba is talking about the fight for justice” were heard, and the commitment of the Labor Party caucus to support the position of President Claudia Sheinbaum and the government in favor of fruitful, respectful, and strong relations with the island was ratified.
Three parliamentarians conveyed their condolences, sympathy and admiration for the Cubans who died in the face of the United States’ aggression against Venezuela.
Deputy Ortiz stated that together with the citizens of the island they will celebrate Fidel’s 100th birthday on August 13th and expressed the desire to accompany and share the same fate as the people of the largest of the Antilles, because “solidarity is the tenderness of the people.”
The Cuban ambassador expressed his gratitude for the expressions of solidarity and confirmed his willingness to continue strengthening the historic ties of friendship between the two countries.
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