Cuba received a special declaration against the U.S. blockade in the framework of CELAC and a warm hospitality from the Mexican government and people, through the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, during his visit to the homeland of Benito Juárez.

By Roberto Morejón

Cuba received a special declaration against the U.S. blockade in the framework of CELAC and a warm hospitality from the Mexican government and people, through the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, during his visit to the homeland of Benito Juárez.

The VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States reiterated its importance as a forum of respect for diversity and without exclusions, for the sake of cooperation.  

Cuba agrees with that vision and rejoices at the success of the meeting, meticulously organized by Mexico.

Cuba salutes President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who revitalized a space for exchange that was unable to organize major events in recent years.

At the conclave, the Cuban President outlined the general lines of domestic and foreign policy and the impact of Washington's siege, perfidiously associated with a brutal disinformation campaign.

Cuba was able to present at the CELAC meeting the advances of its biotechnology industry, whose successes, including those of native vaccines, are also a Latin American and Caribbean conquest.

It was the moment for him to reiterate his willingness to work in the CELAC space on a production and vaccine supply agreement with interested countries.

In this line of desires for joint work, which is also expressed in the placement of Cuban doctors in Latin America and the Caribbean, certain sharp allusions were discordant.

Such was the case of the presidents of Paraguay, towards Venezuela, and of Uruguay towards the Bolivarian Revolution, Nicaragua and Cuba.

Far from the spirit of consensus worked hard by the Mexican organizers, Mario Abdo Benitez and Luis Lacalle Pou were out of tune, with praises to abstract democracy, in a succession of speakers in which restraint prevailed.

This restraint did not prevent CELAC from urging U.S. President Joseph Biden to substantially modify the application of the blockade against Cuba and the U.S. Congress to proceed to its elimination.

For the Cubans, this pronouncement has a moral, political and diplomatic courageous value, which cannot be dissociated from the reiterated position of the Mexican government and its president AMLO, in demonstrating their affection, consistency and courage in solidarity with the land of José Martí.