On the occasion of the installation in Brussels of the event on youth, civil society and local governments, the university student pointed out as objectives of her participation to expose the reality of the Antillean nation and the impact on its youth due to the U.S. blockade.

However, in the forum organized by the Europeans, we find limitations, and we cannot intervene as speakers, but only through questions, she added.

In the context of the celebration on July 17 and 18 of the III Summit between the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), today and tomorrow’s meeting dedicated to civil society was convened, although under questioning and complaints for not being the result of a bi-regional consensus.

As it was conceived, the forum that calls to debate on cohesion, social inequalities, education, health, culture, gender, youth, human rights, democracy and sustainable economy does not allow delegates from Cuba and other countries to make their contribution.

Cuban youth want to talk here about our reality, marked by the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States, which affects our studies and our future, insisted the representative of the University Students Federation (FEU).

Gómez warned that Cuban civil society is not developing under normal conditions, because it lives under the effects of more than 6 decades of blockade and 243 measures ordered by the administration of Donald Trump (2017-2021) to intensify the economic stifling on the island, a hostility maintained by his successor in the White House, Joseph Biden.

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