The complaint against the hostile U.S. policy, applied for more than six decades and whose accumulated damages are estimated at more than 164.14 billion dollars (at current prices), resounded in an emotional ceremony held at the Public Security University of the southern metropolis.

The Union of Friendship Organizations (HUFO) and the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association of Ho Chi Minh City were the organizers of the meeting, held the day before, and which recalled the 71st anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons on July 26, 1953.

Truong Thi Hien, president of the Association, referred to the importance of these events and also of the relations between the two nations, founded and cultivated by President Ho Chi Minh and the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

Likewise, the relevance of the recent state visit to Cuba of the general secretary of the Communist Party and president of Vietnam, To Lam, was underlined, which, as it was said, will allow strengthening the traditional solidarity and special friendship between the two countries, trade, investments, and links in other spheres.

Speaking at the event, Cuba’s consul general in the southern city, Ariadne Feo Labrada, said that the special and unique friendship between her country and Vietnam is a model of international relations, and stressed the importance of developing people-to-people diplomacy.

The diplomat denounced the ceaseless application of the iron blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba, causing considerable damage to the economy, and as the main obstacle to its economic and social development, in addition to the irrational and unjust inclusion of the island in the so-called “list of countries that sponsor terrorism”.

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