Detroit, USA, Nov 17 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of more than 70 organizations from the National Network on Cuba in the United States (NNOC) concluded the annual meeting of this broad coalition today with a call to lift the embargo on the Caribbean country.
For two days, activists from Michigan and others from South Carolina, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, California, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., gathered in Detroit to discuss strategies for solidarity work toward 2025.
In its final statement, the NNOC celebrated the achievements in “strengthening solidarity with Cuba and advancing the broader struggle to support the removal of Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and to end the genocidal U.S. economic embargo against Cuba.”
For the coming year, the “goal is to continue our collaborative efforts with like-minded organizations,” the statement emphasized, emphasizing that its members will expand and diversify their networks to make the issue of the need to lift the embargo relevant at the local level.
The statement emphasized that to raise awareness, they will link “the impacts of the blockade to tangible costs, both material and physical, here in the United States; our goal is to make our message resonate with ordinary people, galvanizing broader support,” he emphasized.
At the meeting, it was revealed that the meeting on the International Conference on the Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations will be held next March and that the annual meeting of the NNOC will be held in November 2025 in South Carolina.
The day before, three more organizations joined the NNOC on the first day of discussions at the event: Levántate por Cuba (Chicago); Community Movement Builders (Detroit); and Diáspora Pa’lante (New Jersey).
The prelude to this event was the opening of the Latin American News Agency Prensa Latina’s photography exhibition “65 Years Serving the Truth,” which captures moments from the history of this Cuban media outlet, founded on June 16, 1959, at the initiative of Fidel Castro.
On her account on the social network X, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Cuban Embassy in the United States, Lianys Torres, expressed her gratitude for the numerous expressions of solidarity from the American people, whose voices have been raised strongly against the blockade and the inclusion of the island on the unilateral list of sponsors of terrorism.
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