Havana, August 31 (RHC) -- Manolo De los Santos, Executive Director of The People's Forum in New York City, affirmed that the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba is a genocidal policy.

“One of the examples of genocide in international law is depriving a people of their food and we see that clearly in the case of the hostility of the U.S. government towards the Cuban people,” the Dominican-American activist declared in Havana.

He commented that the “same government that finances the genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, also imposes a genocide against the Cuban people.”

De los Santos headed the donation to the island of 800 tons of wheat flour, acquired as a result of the Let Cuba Live “Bread for Our Neighbors” campaign, promoted by The People’s Forum, an organization based in the United States.

Photo taken from Prensa Latina

He explained that thousands of citizens from various nations responded to the initiative, “from people who donated one dollar to people who gave thousands of dollars.”

“They are all convinced that we must carry out another type of policy in favor of relations between Cuba and the United States,” he added.

He pointed out that all this is also possible because of the brotherhood and working relationships with the Martin Luther King Center, “with which we have carried out deliveries of powdered milk and other products necessary for life.”

The donation, whose first delivery was made at the La Vivoreña bakery, in the capital municipality of Diez de Octubre, will be distributed in the provinces of Pinar del Río, Mayabeque, Artemisa, Havana and Matanzas.

The People’s Forum describes itself as “a group of organizers, educators, visionaries, cultural workers, thinkers and fighters committed to the systemic transformation of a society rooted in equity, justice and human dignity.”    (Source: Prensa Latina)