Washington, Mar 30 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban embassy in the United States hosted a meeting with representatives of several generations of nationals and their descendants, an initiative that seeks today to connect more and more strongly with the roots.

In the group a seven-year-old girl, the youngest, traveled with her parents from Chicago. They, as they told Prensa Latina, were “eager to see other Cubans, to get closer, to relate”.

That is why during the evening they talked about national symbols, Cuban music that has served as a school and is listened to in so many places, the rhythms and the character of Cubans.

Welcoming the guests to the diplomatic headquarters, the head of the Cuban Mission, Lianys Torres, recalled the negative effects resulting from the country’s inclusion in the list of sponsors of terrorism, which sets more hurdles in the midst of the economic, commercial and financial blockade the US government has enforced for over six decades.

But, above all, Torres conveyed in her words confidence and optimism in the future, and that the hard times will pass.

She also reiterated that one of Embassy’s prime objectives is “to strengthen our relationship with Cubans living abroad and their descendants”.

Paul Cassens, a American musician and lover of Cuban rhythms, enlivened the evening in which he said he would be happy, like many here, to see relations between the U.S. and Cuba improve.

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Santo Domingo, Mar 28 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary-General of the United Left Movement (MIU) of the Dominican Republic, Miguel Mejía, paid a visit to Havana on Thursday in order to strengthen the traditional friendly relations with Cuba.

As part of his work agenda, the Dominican delegation held a meeting with an official commission of Cuba´s Public Health Ministry (MINSAP) headed by first Deputy Minister, Margarita Cruz Hernández, the MIU published on its official website.

Mejía specified the meeting was aimed at “establishing coordination to strengthen bilateral links with MINSAP for the benefit of both peoples”.

Dureing his meeting, Mejía availed himself od such an opportunity to strongly condemn that a policy of economic terrorism is being developed against Cuba by the United States, while he blamed Washington for the precariousness suffered by the Cuban people as a result of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba for over 60 years.

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Quito, Mar 28 (Prensa Latina) The Ecuadorian Coordinator of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba reaffirmed on Thursday its strong rejection of the hostile and unjust U.S. blockade imposed on Cuba and also assured that such a genocidal policy is responsible for most of difficulties faced by the Cuban people.

In a statement Prensa Latina had access to, the solidarity movement referred to the incidents that mobilized a group of Cubans past Sunday, March 17, a day in which a smear campaign was waged to overstate the event and above all its motivations.

That event was an opportunity for the “imperial spokesmen to threaten once again the dignity of the Cuban people”.

The organization ratified “its commitment with the just causes conducted by Cuba, which has given it the title of a reference of dignity for the peoples around the world and in Latin America”.

The Coordinating Committee for Peace, Sovereignty, Integration and Non-interference (CPAZ), which sent a letter to the Cuban ambassador in Ecuador, Basilio Gutiérrez, to express its support to Cuba and its authorities, pronounced itself in similar terms.

CPAZ warned of the “imperialist maneuvers” of those who intend to “to fish in troubled waters, troubled by themselves and deform the perception of reality to distract world opinion and exacerbate situations of local protest, normal in a participatory democracy and even more so in the one we are dealing with, so close to the jaws of the monster”.

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