Guantanamo, Cuba, May 6 (Prensa Latina) The participants in the 8th International Seminar on Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases advocated a peaceful world and social justice, journalistic sources said on Monday.

The event, which started on May 5 with the participation of 80 delegates from 30 countries, concluded on Sunday in the eastern province of Guantanamo, nearly 1,000 kilometers east of Havana, where the Government of the United States has maintained a military base since 1903.

In the town of Caimanera, adjacent to the US naval base, which has been designated as a torture center for prisoners without legal protection, the pacifists signed the Final Declaration of the event, which supported the Proclamation of Latin America as a Zone of Peace.

According to the Cuban News Agency (ACN), the peace and anti-imperialist activists denounced the aggressiveness and interference of Washington and its allies, which maintain dozens of military bases around the world without the nations’ consent.

They noted the need to stop the proliferation of those enclaves and demanded the closure of the existing ones, including that of Guantanamo, the US oldest base in the Western Hemisphere.

The document rejects the cyber war and communication disinformation campaigns from operation centers established by the US Army and its allies from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Participants in the two-day seminar also demanded an end to Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people and the end of weapons and ammunition supplies to the Israel and Ukraine.

As part of the meeting, the World Peace Council and its allied organizations also called to strengthen alliances with the Cuba solidarity movement in several countries in search of a peaceful and just solution, the source pointed out.

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Paris, May 4 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Ambassador to France Otto Vaillant on Saturday denounced the blockade that the United States has imposed on his country and the consequences of that policy, at a peace conference organized by the Communist Party of France (CPF).

Speaking at a round table dedicated to the peoples’ sovereign right to choose their path, the diplomat stated that Cuba has faced an economic, commercial and financial blockade from Washington for more than 60 years, precisely for exercising that right to self-determination.

“It is not easy for a small country to build this path against a big empire, but we will continue to win,” he warned at the event, which is being attended by guests from progressive organizations from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe, who are meeting at the at the CPF headquarters.

According to Vaillant, the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959, was Cuba’s opportunity to achieve and consolidate its full sovereignty and independence, a fact that the powerful US neighbor cannot accept.

They are conquests that we have had to defend in more than six decades of constant aggression, with a blockade that affects the population and generates many difficulties, he explained. The ambassador asserted that despite so much US hostility, Cuba remains firm in the construction of its own social project and maintains its commitment to international solidarity.

At the opening of the peace conference, CPF International Relations Director Vincent Boulet repeated the organization’s condemnation of the US blockade against Cuba and its inclusion in Washington’s unilateral State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list.

Boulet recalled that last year, the French communists launched a campaign to support Cuba in light of the consequences of the blockade and its extraterritorial nature.

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Havana, May 2 (Prensa Latina) The International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba continues after the participation of its delegates in an event on International Workers’ Day.

The event was inaugurated on April 30th, and has more than 1,100 participants.

Previously, members of solidarity committees with Cuba, political movements and networks supporting the Cuban cause visited a dozen companies and centers of economic and social relevance in the capital and the province of Artemisa.

The visitors learned about the efforts of the labor groups of the state companies they visited to find creative solutions to the numerous adversities imposed on workers by the blockade imposed by the United States.

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Havana, May 2 (Prensa Latina) Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío denounced on Thursday, the growing hostility of the United States against his country in an attempt to subvert the revolutionary process.

In a meeting with more than 1,100 solidarity activists, trade unionists, and representatives of leftist organizations from 58 countries at the Havana-based Conference Center, the diplomat updated the intensification of the economic siege and the discrediting campaigns against Cuba.

Fernández de Cossío explained that his country bases its international relations on principles and seeks respectful relations with all countries globally.

Such relations, he pointed out, are based on values such as the defense of sovereignty and the right to self-determination, solidarity, and proletarian internationalism, “as Cuba has historically demonstrated with significant quotas of sacrifice, sharing what it has, not what is left over.

This includes the defense of peace and respect for international laws and the United Nations Charter.

In the face of the US attempts to isolate Cuba, this country promotes the development of the broadest possible economic and commercial relations and strengthens ties with its nationals living abroad.

That breadth is expressed in the fact that Cuba maintains diplomatic relations with all countries except the State of Israel, with which it broke off ties in September 1973 in solidarity with the Palestinian people, the diplomat recalled.

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Havana, May 1 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro, and President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Wednesday chaired the mass rally of workers in Havana to celebrate May 1, International Workers’ Day.

Photo by: Vladimir Molina Espada

Early in the morning, the Anti-imperialist Tribune welcomed thousands of representatives of the working class from five Havana municipalities.

Cubans of all generations have gathered nationwide, in squares, parks and avenues to attend what are planned to be parades and rallies to praise the value of work and support the revolutionary process in Cuba.

On Tuesday, the general secretary of the Cuban Workers’ Union (CTC), Ulises Guilarte, noted that this May 1 will express more strongly the spirit of unity of the Cuban people amid difficult circumstances, due to harassment by the United States Government and its policy of economic, financial and commercial siege against Cuba.

He praised the participation in the events on workers’ day of more than 1,000 foreign guests who make up the solidarity committees with Cuba from some 50 countries, who are in Havana to participate in an international meeting of solidarity with Cuba.

International Workers’ Day was established in 1889 to be celebrated every May 1 by agreement of the Socialist Workers’ Congress held in Paris.

Since then, the anniversary is a reason for festivities in many countries, but in others it is an opportunity for demonstrations and struggles for the rights of the working class.

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