Detroit, November 18 (RHC)-- Representatives of more than 70 organizations of the National Network on Cuba in the United States (NNOC) concluded last night the annual meeting of this broad coalition with a call for the lifting of the blockade of the Caribbean country.

For two days, activists from Michigan and others from South Carolina, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, California, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington DC met in the city of Detroit to discuss strategies for solidarity work towards 2025.

In its final statement, the NNOC celebrated achievements in “strengthening solidarity with Cuba and advancing the broader struggle to support the removal of Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism and ending the genocidal U.S. economic embargo against Cuba.”

For the coming year, the “objective is to continue our collaborative efforts with like-minded organizations,” the text stressed, emphasizing that its members will broaden and diversify networks to make the issue of the need to lift the blockade relevant at the local level.

The communiqué emphasized that to raise awareness they will link “the impacts of the blockade with 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,” it stressed.

At the meeting, it was announced that the International Conference on Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations will be held in March next year and that the next annual meeting of the NNOC will be held in November 2025 in South Carolina.

This Saturday, three other organizations joined the NNOC in the first day of discussions of the event: Arise for Cuba (Chicago); Community Movement Builders (Detroit) and Diaspora Pa'lante (New Jersey).

The prelude to this event was the inauguration of the exhibition of photographs of the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina “65 Years in the Service of Truth”, which includes moments in the history of this Cuban media, founded on June 16, 1959 at the initiative of Fidel Castro.

In her account in the social network X, the Chargé d'Affaires of the Cuban Embassy in the United States, Lianys Torres, thanked the numerous expressions of solidarity of the American people, whose voice has been raised strongly against the blockade and the inclusion of the island in the unilateral list of sponsors of terrorism.  (Source: Prensa Latina)