On Twitter, the Cuban diplomat posted that hatred will not silence the solidarity of peoples who are opposing the hostile, aggressive and criminal US blockade against Cuba.

Pedroso shared a video of Hurtado´s complaint, who told how a man assaulted her at a supermarket in Barcelona, Spain, because of her communist ideology, which he described as a hatred crime.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel also described the assault as a depicable and cowardly act.

Meanwhile, the Vice President of the Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP, in Spanish), Víctor Gaute, sent a message of solidarity to Ana Hurtado and expressed he is proud to know her and defend her as a Cuba´s daughter.

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