“We remember those who suffered slavery due to colonialist greed”, the head of Cuban diplomacy said in X.

Likewise, Rodriguez assured that “for more than 400 years, more than 15 million people were victims of transatlantic trafficking”.

“Former metropolises must attend to the just demands of Caribbean countries for those crimes against humanity,” he stated on the platform itself.

This Tuesday marks the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, an awareness day established by the United Nations General Assembly in November 2006 and celebrated every March 25 since 2007.

It aims to “raise awareness of the atrocities of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade and their impacts on world history, especially on African and Afro-descendant peoples,” according to the UN.

This commemoration is part of a series of measures suggested during the first World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001.

The date honors and remembers millions of people captured, sold and exploited.

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