The text, signed by the Yamileth López Bolivarian Circle and the Cuba Solidarity Movement, confirms their “full solidarity with the Caribbean country, attacked and besieged by the longest criminal, fratricidal and arbitrary blockade in history, orchestrated from the United States.”

“The Costa Rican nation, imbued with the deepest moral reserves of integrity and patriotic and emancipatory ethics, joins in the commemorations of this glorious action of the Cuban and universal people’s combat.”

The statement recalls the feat against colonial rule that began in the Cuban territory of Baire, when “on February 24, 1895, the mambi forces, led by José Martí and the Cuban Revolutionary Party, gave the starting signal for the Necessary War for their liberation.”

The signatories of the text recalled, in light of the 130th anniversary of that epic, that “with the cry of independence or death, the pistons of a popular revolutionary engine began to pump energy, tenacity, impetus and perseverance in the fields of the irreconcilable and victorious struggle.”

They recalled that José Martí, Antonio Maceo, Flor Crombert, Calixto García, Quintín Bandera, Guillermón Moncada, among other independence commanders, understood that stage of the confrontation with Spain, while “a superior enemy was born with its tentacles from the north and its genocidal Anglo-Saxon ballast.”

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