Rome, March 11 (Prensa Latina) During a demonstration held in the southern Italian city of Naples, dozens of protesters rejected the imperialist offensive of the United States against Cuba and Venezuela, a spokeswoman said today.
The event was attended by members of the National Association of Friendship Italy-Cuba (Anaic), the Solidarity Network with Venezuela, as well as the Solidarity Movement with Palestine and the Network of Communists, among other groups, a spokesperson for the event organizers told Prensa Latina.
Indira Pineda, a member of the Neapolitan circle of Anaic, reported that the event condemned the treacherous US military attack against Venezuela on January 3, in which 32 Cuban combatants died heroically, and the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, was kidnapped along with his wife, Cilia Flores.
The activist indicated that during that solidarity activity, the speakers expressed their condemnation of the genocidal US policy of economic strangulation of Cuba, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to try to prevent the entry of fuel into that country.
This measure represents a tightening of the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by Washington on the Caribbean nation for more than 60 years, the participants stressed, who expressed their support for the solidarity campaigns with the Cuban people currently taking place in Italy.
Pineda, a Cuban sociologist residing in Italy, referred to the “Energy for Life” initiative promoted by Anaic, in conjunction with the ARCI Social Promotion Association, the Italian General Confederation of Labor and the National Association of Partisans of Italy.
To date, they have already raised more than 200,000 euros, which will be used to purchase and install solar panels in schools, hospitals, cultural facilities and workplaces in Cuba, according to a statement released by the project’s promoters.
The event also expressed support for the “A Century of Light” campaign promoted by the Cuban community residing in Italy and solidarity organizations, for the shipment of containers with aid to the people of that country, the source added.
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