In an Anti-Imperialist Tribune chaired by President Miguel Díaz-Canel at the Mariana Grajales Coello Revolution Square, participants demonstrated their unity in favor of peace and the defense of national sovereignty.
They also rejected Washington’s decision to transfer up to 30,000 people considered dangerous criminals to the facilities in that military enclave, as part of the anti-immigrant crusade carried out by the current US administration.
They pointed out that this arbitrary measure might generate a scenario of risk and insecurity that would threaten peace, and held President Donald Trump responsible for any act that might threaten stability in this illegally occupied portion of Cuba.
On behalf of civil society, Miladis Llosa, sister of the young pioneer Daniel Llosas, who died when he was only 13 years of age as a victim of one of the terrorist attacks on Cuba, stated, “I do not forget the pain that imperialist aggression has caused for years.”
According to the local newspaper Venceremos, Llosa pointed out that “the United States has no moral authority to claim that Cuba sponsors terrorism, when historically we have suffered these acts financed by the governments of the North.”
Journalism student Ana Laura Campello, who is doing her voluntary military service in the Border Brigade, denounced the 122 years of occupation of that portion of territory, an action that has been rejected by Cubans of all generations.
She confirmed her confidence in the victory of the people over the blockade of the United States and more than 240 measures that intensify it.
We Cubans are the creators of great deeds such as the uprising at the La Confianza farm and the landings in Baracoa by Antonio Maceo, and in Playita de Cajobabo by José Martí and Máximo Gómez, architects of the Necessary War, of which we celebrate the 130th anniversary this year, she added.
Also present at the event were the secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Roberto Morales; the PCC first secretary in eastern Cuba, Yoel Pérez, and Major General Samuel Rodiles, along with other local officials and representatives of all sectors.
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