Havana, March 25 (RHC) -- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez paid tribute this Monday to the victims of slavery, on the occasion of the commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Through his account on X, the foreign minister expressed the island's support to the just demands for reparations and compensation presented by Caribbean countries to former metropolises for those crimes against humanity.

Rodriguez recalled that as a consequence of the cruel and inhumane trafficking, nearly 1.3 million Africans arrived in Cuba.

According to the United Nations, the commemoration of this date offers the opportunity to pay tribute and remember those who suffered and died at the hands of a brutal system that humiliated millions of human beings and violated all their rights.

The aim is also to raise awareness of the dangers of racism and prejudice today.

For more than 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children lived through one of the blackest chapters in the history of mankind. (Source: Prensa Latina)