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Washington, February 6 (RHC)-- The leader of the Puentes de Amor solidarity project, Carlos Lazo, called for a "tuitazo" next Wednesday, February 9, to demand an end to the U.S. blockade against Cuba.

The Cuban-American professor urged people of good will, regardless of their ideologies, to post messages on their social networks in favor of lifting the unilateral siege that is suffocating Cuban families.

The tweeting will take place next Wednesday between 12:00 and 18:00, Washington D.C. time, to demand that President Joe Biden fulfill his electoral promise to reverse the strategy of his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who imposed 243 additional measures that are still in force.

The activist denounced that there is a media blockade on the activities of Bridges of Love, since the Miami media hide this information and leave aside the caravans against the blockade that take place every month in that city in South Florida.

If you agree with the opening of consular services at the Washington embassy in Havana, the restoration of the family reunification program, the facilitation of remittances to the island and the resumption of direct commercial flights to all Cuban provinces, participate in the tweetathon, Lazo said.

The founder of Puentes de Amor also advocated the establishment of commercial, scientific, educational and cultural ties between the two countries, that is, a turnaround in the current White House policy towards the largest of the Antilles.

Last week it was reported that the Undersecretary of State for Hemispheric Affairs, Brian A. Nichols, informed before Congress that consular service officials will be sent to the Cuban headquarters to increase the processing of visas for Cuban applicants at a date yet to be announced.

Through a video transmitted live on his Facebook account, Lazo considered that the tweet is important to materialize these actions as soon as possible and that they do not remain only in promises.

In the appearance of the person in charge of the region for the State Department, it also transpired that Washington is still reviewing proposals to ease the restrictions imposed on remittances to Cuba, seriously limited since October 2020, when Trump banned the operations of the Western Union company with the Caribbean nation.