The RNASP issued a statement expressing its commitment to always defend solidarity and promote friendship between Nicaragua and Cuba and condemn the blockade imposed by the United States on the Island, which they described as criminal, since it “intends to put an end to the Cuban Revolution through economic strangling.”

“No country is known in the world´s history to have suffered an aggression so sustained in time and the cruelty with which it is applied,” the organization stressed.

The statement pointed out that a crucial part of the blockade is an attempt to demoralize Cuba and criminalize its work, which is why it was included, without reason and legal basis,

in the outrageous list of “countries sponsoring terrorism”.

“(The United States), who practice murder, crime, and terrorism in all its facets, now classifies Cuba as a terrorist. We demand that Cuba be removed from that infamous list,” it concluded.

In May 2019, the National Assembly of Nicaragua promulgated the law that establishes April 17th as Friendship Day between the Republics of Cuba and the Republic of Nicaragua, in homage to the warrior Carlos Ulloa, who fell in defense of the Cuban Revolution in Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs) on April 17th, 1961, when Cuba was invaded by mercenaries under the service of the United States Government.

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