Havana, July 30 (Prensa Latina) The General Union of Workers and Farmworkers of Mexico will work to promote and organize solidarity actions with the Cuban Revolution, according to a statement from the island’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs today.
According to the statement, the organization’s head of international affairs, Héctor Domínguez, expressed this commitment during an official meeting with José Maury, political advisor to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico.
Published on cubaminrex.cu, the text adds that Domínguez considered it important to “strengthen relations with the Cuban Workers’ Central Union and its unions” to “continue enriching the historic relationship of brotherhood between the workers and peasants of the two countries.”
The union leader also “thanked for the information about the United States government’s attacks against the Cuban people.”
Since its founding in 1949, the General Union of Workers and Farmworkers of Mexico has defended labor and farmworker rights, and is characterized by social struggle and the demand for optimal working and living conditions for its members.
It is currently a member of the World Federation of Trade Unions, established on October 3, 1945, in Paris and one of the oldest international trade union organizations in the world.
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