Cuba solidarity movement to be strengthened in 2024

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 7 (ACN) Strengthening Cuba solidarity networks in other countries and swell their ranks with more young people are priorities of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) for 2024, its president Fernando Gonzalez Llort stressed.

Efforts are under way, he said, to resume the regional meetings of these groups, interrupted by the pandemic, and hold them every two years.

“Our agenda for this year features the National Meeting of Solidarity Movements in Mexico, a preliminary to the 2025 continental conference in that country, as well as meetings in France and China,” Gonzalez Llort remarked. “Others will also be held in Brazil, Colombia, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States, among other nations. (…) Besides, the province of Guantánamo will host in May the 8th International Seminar for Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases and, at the same time, we will have the regional meeting of the World Peace Council in the city of Santiago de Cuba.”

Likewise, the official referred to visits by international contingents such as the First of May and the brigades Juan Rius Rivera (Puerto Rico), José Martí (Europe) and Venceremos (U.S.A.), as well as to the 14th Pastors for Peace Caravan, among other groups opposed to both the U.S. blockade and the unilateral inclusion of Cuba in the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

In 2023, ICAP maintained relations with more than 1,600 peace and solidarity organizations, associations of graduates in Cuba, and Cubans based abroad who took part in about 21,896 rallies and/or provided supplies and donations worth more than EUR 600,000 and USD 100,000.