Buenos Aires, Jan 25 (RHC) Several bilateral meetings with counterparts in the region and meetings with businessmen, political forces, intellectuals, and friends of Cuba mark this Wednesday the visit of President Miguel Diaz-Canel to Argentina.
With unanimous support for his country by the 33 countries that make up the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which demanded the day before the end of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States, the Cuban president fulfills an important schedule as part of his participation in the VII Summit of that regional mechanism.
Since he landed last Sunday with the delegation he heads, Diaz-Canel held several exchanges, the day before he met again with his Brazilian counterpart, Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva, and with the Honduran Xiomara Castro.
On his second visit to Buenos Aires, the ruler was able to corroborate once again the close ties between his country and Argentina and felt the warmth of solidarity and unconditional groups with the island, who held a social summit, where they also endorsed their support for Cuba and called for an end to all blockades in Latin America.
Precisely the day before, Díaz-Canel thanked CELAC Heads of State and Government for the forceful claim against the siege imposed by the United States on his country and for the removal of Cuba from the list of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
Likewise, he ratified that the Antillean nation will not be intimidated by such aggressions.
The name of the Caribbean nation was heard several times in the CELAC plenary, where the host president of the meeting, Alberto Fernandez, stressed that blockades are perverse methods against people. Cuba has suffered one for more than six decades and this is unforgivable, he said.
Of the 11 declarations issued at this 7th Summit, one of them repudiates the blockade against Cuba and at the same time requests its exclusion from the unilateral list of nations that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
In the Buenos Aires declaration, the Heads of State reiterated their deep concern for the intensification of this policy, especially in the context of Covid-19, and their rejection of the extraterritorial dimension of the blockade, which severely and negatively impacts Cuba's international financial transactions and the wellbeing of its people. (Source: Prensa Latina)
