Colombo, Feb 10 (Prensa Latina) The Frontline Socialist PartY (FSP) of Sri Lanka condemned the decision of the United States to use the illegal naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, for the reception of Trump[s deported immigrants, so stated the national newspaper THE ISLAND.

The Sri Lankan party demanded, in a statement, the immediate withdrawal of the United States from the US naval base in Guantanamo and the return of that illegal occupied territory in Cuba.

In addition to condemning US President Donald Trump’s decision, this party reaffirmed that this territory rightfully belongs to the Cuban people, and described Washington’s measure of imprisoning deported migrants in the enclave as cruel and unjust and violates human rights and Cuban territory.

The text stated that it also expresses the oppressive and exploitative nature of the foreign and immigration policies of the United States, which are contrary to humanity.

The FSP of Sri Lanka also demanded the US Government their immediate withdrawal and to implement a humane and just immigration policy respecting the dignity and rights of all individuals.

It also urged Washington to end its exploitative economic and foreign policies which have paved the way to forced migration.

It also called on the international community, human rights organizations, and all progressive forces to stand in solidarity with the affected migrants and defeat US imperialism.

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Mexico City, February 5 (Radio Havana Cuba)– Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated on Wednesday her rejection of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States government on Cuba and said that these sieges harm the people.

“They know our position regarding Cuba.  Economic blockades do not harm governments, they harm the people, and dialogue must always be put above all else,” said the president during her usual press conference, this time from the state of Querétaro.

“It is in our constitution, in the definition of the principles of foreign policy, but it is something that is important to develop in all senses.  Closing the door and not dialoguing, I believe, is never the option.  The construction of peace requires permanent dialogue,” he stressed.

The day before, the president of the island, Miguel Díaz-Canel, rejected the statements of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela “enemies of humanity.”

During a visit to Costa Rica, as part of a tour of Central America, the U.S. secretary of state accused those three countries of being the cause of the current migration crisis.

“The shamelessness once again taking hold of the cynical politicians of the United States,” stated the Cuban dignitary in X, where he affirmed that it is proven that the migratory exodus on the island is proportional to the hardening of the blockade policy of that northern power.

He pointed out that the siege deprives the Cuban people of essential goods, and warned about the danger for humanity of neo-fascism promoted by Washington.

Enemies of humanity are those who resist blockades without abandoning solidarity with other peoples or those who apply the blockade trampling on international laws? The empire, with its expansionist appetite and its futile pretension of governing the world, is the enemy of humanity, he stressed. 

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Havana, Feb 4 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Tuesday that the Cuban Government, with the support of the people, will continue to defend the Revolution, independence and national sovereignty.

The head of Cuban diplomacy wrote so on his X account, a platform in which he denounced that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to visit Havana, “but first change our government. He will be left wanting.”

“He will not be able to visit Cuba, a country about which he knows absolutely nothing. He was not invited,” Rodríguez said.

In his message on X, the foreign minister ratified Cuba’s willingness to defend its sovereignty, and recalled that 13 US presidents and secretaries of state have assumed power since the revolutionary triumph in 1959.

On January 30, the Donald Trump administration approved Cuba’s reinclusion on the List of Restricted Entities, which prohibits financial transactions with Cuban state companies, in addition to denying them resources.

Ten days earlier, the new US administration revoked the decision by President Joe Biden to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list, a step criticized by a large part of the international community.

In this regard, Cuban leaders affirmed that they will act with firmness and dignity in the face of the outrage that these new measures represent.

Cuba also sought support from the international community “to stop, denounce and accompany our people in the face of the new and dangerous onslaught of aggression” by the United States “that has only just begun.”

According to the Foreign Ministry, the announcement may also be the prelude to other measures that the team in charge of the Cuba issue in this government has designed since 2017 to further tighten, gratuitously and irresponsibly, the blockade against Cuba in search of new and avoidable scenarios of deterioration and bilateral confrontation.

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Geneva, Feb 4 (Prensa Latina) Swiss political and social organizations on Monday condemned the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba and the Caribbean island’s re-inclusion on the unilateral list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.

In the vicinity of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, participants in the event displayed banners and waved Cuban flags as signs of solidarity with the Caribbean nation, which has faced hostility from the United States for more than six decades.

Participants in the rally included members of the Swiss Cuba Association, Cuban and Latin American residents, and representatives of MediCuba-Switzerland, the Communist Party of Switzerland and other organizations.

During the event, they recognized the Cuban people’s resistance and their decision to defend their sovereignty against a blockade that they described as criminal. They also demanded that Cuba be removed from the list of countries that the United States considers sponsors of terrorism, a mechanism without international support that was described here as unjust and unjustified.

At the rally, which was attended by diplomats headed by Cuban Ambassador to the UN-Geneva Rodolfo Benítez, the Swiss-Cuban Association released a statement in which it denounced the impact of Washington’s aggressiveness on Cuban population, particularly on its well-being and economic development.

“We make a clear and urgent call to the Government of the United States to immediately and unconditionally end the illegal blockade imposed on the island and remove Cuba from an illegal list on which it should have never appeared,” the statement said.

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