PCE Secretary General Enrique Santiago, who is also a member of the Sumar coalition, allied to the Spanish Government, set the main guidelines of the party’s foreign policy in the main event of the PCE Festival, which took place over the weekend in the Madrid municipality of Rivas-Vaciamadrid.

Santiago expressed his support for Venezuela and Cuba, which are victims of ‘the scourge of unjust and illegal economic sanctions and blockades, imposed by the Government of the United States.’

He described as criminal the commercial and economic sanctions that cause damages ‘in many cases irreparable to the Cuban people,’ which must be denounced by the international community, and at the same time, effective measures must be taken to end such aggression.

Santiago insisted that such hostility ‘is a crime against humanity and against the whole Cuban people,’ and condemned Washington’s inclusion of Cuba on its list of countries that sponsor terrorism.

That decision ‘lacks any factual basis and responds to a political agreement between the former Colombian ultra-right-wing Government of Ivan Duque and the Trump administration.’

The PCE leader and lawmaker in the Spanish Parliament affirmed that ‘Cuba is the country that has most helped build peace and solve conflicts in Latin America and, especially, in Colombia.’

The PCE is committed to promote the International Court against the Blockade that will take place in Brussels in November, which ‘must show the world the seriousness of the crime that the United States is committing against the Cuban people,’ he said.

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