Havana, Jul 5 (Radio Havana Cuba) The Latin American and Caribbean Continental Network of Solidarity with Cuba and Just Causes demanded in Buenos Aires the exclusion of the island from a list of alleged sponsors of terrorism, drawn up by the United States.

In a statement, the organization urged the deployment of a campaign in support of the largest of the Antilles and against the criminal blockade imposed by Washington on that nation, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

“We accept the challenge of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to build a great world movement against the economic, commercial and financial siege against Cuba. The Network is attentive to the call for this important creation,” the text states.

On the other hand, it urges to spread the transparency and security of Venezuela’s electoral system, to support President Nicolás Maduro and to defend the economic and social advances of the Bolivarian Revolution.

“We join the struggle for the independence of Puerto Rico and the peoples of the Caribbean,” the document adds.

The Network also repudiated the attempted coup d’état in Bolivia and denounced the provocations and messages of hate and xenophobia of the Argentine president, Javier Milei.

“Their actions put the region at risk. We dispose ourselves as militants to make the 2014 Declaration of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States a reality, which establishes that we are a Zone of Peace based on respect for the principles and norms of International Law,” the statement notes.” (Source: Prensa Latina)

Buenos Aires, Jul 5 (Prensa Latina) Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and several intellectuals and human rights defenders in Argentina on Friday supported the international demand to remove Cuba from a United States list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism.

Gathered at the Espacio para la Memoria Institute (IEM), Pérez Esquivel, writer Stella Calloni, the survivors of the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983) Ana María Careaga and Irma Medina, director and screenwriter Lita Stantic, the member of the American Association of Jurists Claudia Rocca, and photographer Adriana Lestido expressed their solidarity with Cuba and demanded an end to Washington’s aggression.

In a statement signed by them, the IEM demanded that the United States Government immediately and completely remove Cuba from that ominous and arbitrary list.

This unjust and unilateral decision violates the United Nations Charter and the resolutions of the General Assembly. What is even more serious, it adds to the damage of a criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade, whose extension over time subjects the Cuban people to suffering and inhuman conditions, and which fail to comply with international standards and human rights, the text states.

From the IEM we reiterate the urgent need to remove Cuba from that list and end the unjust blockade and all types of unilateral coercive measures against a worthy people, who do not submit to the pressures of the US Government, the message concludes.

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Havana, Jul 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuba solidarity organizations in Canada requested the exclusion of the island from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, drawn up by the United States, the Foreign Ministry announced today.

Through a message on X, the Cuban Foreign Ministry published a message reporting on the demand made from Canada, with the hashtag #NoToTerrorism and accompanied by a 42-second audiovisual material.

Coordinators of different organizations in solidarity with Cuba in Vancouver, Canada, pronounced themselves in favor of the exclusion of Cuba from the spurious list of alleged State Sponsors of Terrorism’, the post assures.

The video points out that three years ago, US President Donald Trump included Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism and thus intensified the economic blockade against the Caribbean nation.

It also highlights that the country ‘has defended peace and international cooperation during the last 65 years’ and urges to increase the rejection of Trump’s decision.

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Beijing, Jul 3 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Mao Ming stated on Wednesday at a press conference in Beijing that China will not allow third parties to slander her country’s relations with Cuba.

In response to a publication in the Wall Street Journal, according to which there are listening stations in Chinese military bases in Cuba, she commented that “we have taken note of the report and also of the fact that Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío has pointed out that the report is groundless. The alleged Chinese military bases have never existed, nor have they ever been seen by anyone.

Mao pointed out that not even the United States Embassy in Cuba believes in friendship, camaraderie and brotherhood between both peoples.

She stressed that cooperation between China and Cuba is solemn and, above all, it is open and direct, it is not directed against a third party and slander will never be accepted or permitted as the report maliciously discredits.

The spokeswoman urged Washington to stop interfering in Cuba’s internal affairs, and denounced the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the White House for more than half a century.

“The report mentions Guantanamo, which is clear evidence of more than a century of illegal occupation by the United States in Cuba. The United States has imposed the blockade and sanctions against Cuba for more than 60 years, which has brought big disasters to the Cuban people,” she noted.

The spokeswoman also denounced Cuba’s inclusion in Washington’s State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list.

“Throwing mud at others will not alleviate your own crimes. The United States must do the opposite. Stop interfering in the internal affairs of Cuba. Immediately remove Cuba from the list of so-called State Sponsors of Terrorism. Lift the blockade and sanctions against Cuba.”

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