The movement denounced in a communiqué sent to Prensa Latina that the decision to include once again that nation in “the terror list” becomes an unjust and inconsiderate action when the reality is that Havana offered its territory to bring peace.
The solidarity group affirmed that Cuba “has been one of the champions of peace” and mentioned what happened with Colombia when Cuba became “the perfect scenario” to initiate the peace process requested by then-Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018).
The statement recalled that Colombian President Gustavo Petro recognized Cuba’s “peaceful contribution” to his country when he first asked US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, during his visit to Bogota, “to take the island out of that disastrous list.”
It denounced that the hands of hardcore enemies of Cuba like Cuban-American lawmaker Bob Meléndez and Senator Marco Rubio, are involved in the decision which included Cuba “in this kind of list.”
The communiqué stated that the Venezuela-Cuba Movement of Solidarity and Mutual Friendship thus joins more than 300 faith-based organizations, churches, and believers from 23 countries worldwide, requesting Havana’s removal from that list.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Japanese nun Filo Hirota, the Communion of Reformed Churches of Cuba, and Reverend Chris Ferguson, of the Reformed University of Canada, among others, were among those who signed the text.
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