Declaration of the “Patria” International Colloquium: Cuba is not Alone

Havana, March 15 (ACN) Cuba is not alone, it advances and puts fort its debate, said scholars from several countries gathered at the “Patria” International Colloquium, which paid homage to the 130th anniversary of the founding by Cuban National Hero Jose Marti of his newspaper Patria.

The Colloquium was held at the Havana-based Casa de Las Americas cultural institution and its Declaration stresses that Cuba keeps going forwards against blockades, attacks and lies. Attempts to siege and isolate the island have proven their own failure. “Here are the journalists, scholars, artists and communicators from several nations gathered at this colloquium organized by the Cuban Journalists’ Association…,” reads the Declaration.

The document extends international solidarity and commitment to Cuba, a nation facing an economic and media siege led by the US. The Joe Biden administration has kept up the rules drawn up by its predecessor Donald Trump which underscores the bipartisan nature of the US policy against Cuba.

The consequence of such policy has shown in the absence of any ease of the US blockade measures even under the COVID-19 pandemic, reads the Declaration, which blasts the political offensive launched by Washington against the island, which was based on a huge international media campaign on social and corporative media and foundations.

Cuba’s economic situation cannot be understood without the US blockade which impacts the Cuban people’s everyday life: the shutdown of family remittances processing agencies, sanctions on anyone who do business with Cuba, the ban on internet access to certain platforms of common use in different countries.

The Declaration also reads that we are witnessing the persistence and deepening of an aggression taking place in the context of world crisis and fall of US supremacy.

Cuba is on its feet again like back in 1959 finding new answers and with a history to defend and its doors always opened to sincere friends, reads the document, whose original version in Spanish can be accessed at: http://laventana.casa.cult.cu/index.php/2022/03/15/declaracion-del-coloquio-internacional-patria/

Signatory personalities included:

Marco Teruggi
Daniel David Devita
Gustavo Javier Arroyo
Bruno Lonatti
María Fernanda Ruíz
Ana Silvia Fernández
Javier Couso
Ana Hurtado
Carlos G. Penalva
Orlenys Ortiz
Gustavo Borges Revilla
Heizel Patiño
Jerónimo Zarco
Pedro Santander
Manolo de los Santos
Ben Becker
Vivian Fernandes
Wafica Mehdi