Havana, May 4 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez today congratulated Ariadna Montiel on her election as president of the Morena party in Mexico, and reiterated the desire to deepen the historic ties of friendship between the two peoples.
“We will continue to deepen the historic bonds of friendship between the peoples of Mexico and Cuba. We appreciate your solidarity and ongoing support,” the Foreign Minister stated on his social media account.
Earlier, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel also sent his congratulations to Montiel after her appointment at the VIII Extraordinary National Congress of Morena, and thanked him for the expressions of solidarity and support for the island shown during his speech at the event.
In his first speech as leader of the ruling National Regeneration Movement, Montiel endorsed President Claudia Sheinbaum’s call to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade that the United States has imposed on Cuba for more than six decades.
“Mexico is a beacon in the world, because we defend national sovereignty and the self-determination of peoples, and from here we also say very clearly: we support the call of our president in Barcelona to end the economic blockade against our brother country of Cuba,” said the new president of Morena.
Montiel maintained that the blockade imposed by Washington “is leading to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,” and reaffirmed that Mexican solidarity “will always be with the people of Cuba.”
For more than six decades, the United States has applied an economic, commercial and financial blockade against the largest of the Antilles, which was tightened last January through an executive order signed by the US president, Donald Trump.
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