“Our organizations defend Cuba’s right to full sovereignty, self-determination and non-interference in its internal affairs,” they said in a statement.

They highlighted that the march on December 20 was led by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

The Broad Front Secretariat of International Relations and the Jesús Adón People’s Bloc noted that the Havana residents, representing the Cuban people, demanded Cuba’s exclusion from Washington’s unilateral State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list and the lifting of the economic blockade, which has been tightened to unprecedented levels in recent years.

The two Dominican organizations stated that less than a month befor Republican President Donald Trump takes office in the United States, the economic coercive measures imposed by the ruler himself during his previous administration (2017-2021) remain in force.

They demanded an end of the United States’ pressure policy, and noted that it was false and immoral to point to Cuba as a State that sponsors terrorism.

The anti-imperialist march for Cuba denounced, in front of the Embassy of the United States, the maintenance of the pressure policy against the Caribbean island, with harmful effects on the quality of life of its people and its economic development, they pointed out.

They stressed that Cubans also rejected the adoption of 243 additional measures by the White House, in addition to the training of paramilitary groups that organize, promote and finance terrorist actions against social and economic structures in Cuba.

“We express our solidarity with the Cuban people for their sovereignty, independence, and their Revolution; the blockade suffocates, but “Cuba Lives, Persists and Resists,” they indicated in the statement, which was also signed by Corriente Magisterial Juan Pablo Duarte, Frente Estudiantil Flavio Suero (Feflas) – Juventud Caribe, UCT and the National Human Rights Commission.

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