Boston, May 27 (RHC)-- The US National Network on Cuba (NNOC) brought its support for the Caribbean island to participants in the congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), underway in Boston from May 24 to 27.

Nalda Vigezzi, co-director of the umbrella organization that defends, among other causes, the end to the Washington blockade of Cuba, welcomed the presence in Boston of researchers and scholars from the island.

Vigezzi recalled that in addition to demanding the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial siege, the solidarity network wants the elimination of travel bans to Cuba, the normalization of bilateral relations and the return of the territory illegally occupied by the US naval base in Guantanamo.

She also regretted that dozens of Cubans academics to whom the organizing committee approved their papers to participate at the LASA congress were denied visas by the Donald Trump administration.

That action is added to other US violations of Cuba's sovereignty and its right to self-determination and development, Vigezzi said.