Mexico City, Feb 28 (Prensa Latina) The Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (CSA) held a Solidarity Meeting with Cuba that brought together trade union representatives from this region, Europe and Africa in Mexico.
According to the Cuban Embassy in Havana, CSA Secretary General Rafael Freire stated that defending the Caribbean nation is a task for all democratic sectors and means defending the sovereignty of Latin America and the Caribbean.
In his opinion, an urgent and concrete effort is required from the international trade union family to show solidarity with the workers and the people of the island.
For her part, the deputy general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, Jordan Ureña, insisted that neutrality and silence become complicity in criminal acts such as those committed against Cuba.
He emphasized the importance of continuing to build unity and strengthen solidarity among peoples.
Carlos Hugo Morales, general secretary of the Union of Workers of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, an organization that is part of the National Union of Workers of the country, host of the meeting, defended the right of the Cuban people to define their destiny without external interference.
Regarding the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the Caribbean nation for more than six decades and currently intensified, he denounced that it constitutes a pressure tactic that has concrete human consequences.
In a video message received from Havana, the president of the Organizing Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Central Workers’ Union of Cuba, Osnay Miguel Colina, thanked the international trade union movement for its solidarity and support for his people.
He reaffirmed the Caribbean nation’s decision to seek solutions and continue growing, maintaining a firm conviction to remain sovereign and independent.
The Cuban ambassador to Mexico, Eugenio Martínez, described the current state of international relations as a terrible, fascist, and barbaric stage, and denounced the crime against the island’s people that the intensification of Washington’s aggression represents.
He emphasized that “if we are a threat it is because of the example we set, because we demonstrate an alternative and that a better world is possible.”
The diplomat confirmed that the people of the Caribbean nation have already chosen socialism as the only guarantee of their independence and sovereignty, and that anyone who attempts to militarily attack Cuba will face the Bay of Pigs of the 21st century.
Interventions by representatives of unions from more than 20 nations in Latin America, Europe and Africa, including unions from Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Spain, ratified support for the largest of the Antilles.
As a result of the meeting, the participants approved a Motion of Solidarity with Cuba recognizing the resilience of the island’s workers and people, and called for actions to strengthen support for the country.
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