Communist parties of Cuba and Brazil to deepen relations

Havana, Jun 30 (RHC) The communist parties of Cuba and Brazil exchanged opinions on the mutual interest in deepening relations today, in the midst of the 26th Sao Paulo Forum, which is in session in Brasilia until next Sunday.

«I had a very affectionate meeting with the president of the Communist Party of Brazil, Luciana Santos. We exchanged about the mutual interest in deepening inter-party relations," the head of the Department of International Relations of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, Emilio Lozada, wrote on Twitter.

When speaking at the meeting of the agreement mechanism of progressive forces in Latin America and the Caribbean, Lozada criticized the US siege that "constitutes the main obstacle to our development."

He referred to the two hundred and forty-three measures imposed by the government of former US President Donald Trump to economically suffocate the island, measures than have been kept intact by the Biden administration.

Together with the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the president of the Workers' Party, Gleisi Hoffmann; and the executive secretary of the forum, Mónica Valente, the Cuban communist leader also denounced the inclusion of Cuba in Washington’s list of countries that sponsor terrorism.

Lozada stressed that Cuba will never surrender and recalled Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel’s words when he advocated a creative resistance to the siege, always counting on the permanent solidarity of the people.

In his speech, the also deputy pointed out that for years the Sao Paulo Forum has been an essential space for building the unity of the Latin American and Caribbean left to contribute to the definitive independence, sovereignty and integration of the region. (Source: PL)