Havana, May 2, 2022. We, representatives of trade unions and social organizations of the peoples of the world, gathered at the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba reiterate our joy and gratitude for the immense privilege of having participated together with the people of Cuba in the celebration of the International Workers' Day. In this context, we reaffirm the inescapable will to continue supporting the heroic Cuban people and their Revolution in solidarity.
We have learned that the government of the United States, in what constitutes a new discriminatory and politically motivated action, is attempting to exclude Cuba from the IX Summit of the Americas, to be held in the city of Los Angeles Next June.
We express the strongest rejection and energetically denounce any attempt to divide our peoples, which implies the exclusion of Cuba, or any other brother country of Our America, from the aforementioned Summit.
The plans of the organizers of that event, aimed at preventing the participation of Cuba, come from the same ones that carry out a political-communicational war that intends to impose lies and media manipulation against a people that fights and advances in the construction of their own model development, in the midst of the enormous difficulties arising from the unprecedented tightening of the brutal economic, commercial and financial blockade.
If this intention is committed, the United States government, unilaterally and in abuse of powers that are not conferred on it, as the host country, would be arrogating the right to exclude at its convenience a country that is an example of cooperation, solidarity, and humanism, which practices anti-imperialism, freedom, independence and the defense of long-cherished dreams of a better future for the peoples of the world, without interference or foreign domination. This would undoubtedly constitute a serious historical setback in relation to previous summits.
If the government of the United States did not invite Cuba, the clear purpose of evading the growing international demand to put an end to the unjust and criminal blockade and other additional coercive measures against Cuba, which have a high cost for the population, would be evident, and they are the main obstacle to the country's development and a flagrant violation of the most basic human rights of an entire people.
By giving in to this blackmail, the Summit would ignore the legitimate aspirations of Latin American and Caribbean sovereignty, unity and integration. It would also promote the reinforcement of the Monroe Doctrine and the Pan-American vision of exclusion, discrimination and interference in the internal affairs of the countries of the region. It would definitively be equal to the discredited and dying Organization of American States (OAS), by placing itself at the service of the hegemonic interests of the imperialist power of the North.
The reality would be different if, in an inclusive manner and on equal terms for all the countries of the hemisphere, the Summit debates with sincere commitment the structural problems that affect our economies and societies, the true causes of the growing irregular migratory flows, the protection of the environment and dealing with climate change and other pressing problems in the region; if it attends and proposed to find solutions to the alarming levels of poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, the increase in unemployment and gender inequity; if it rejects and adopts measures to prevent the use of judicial systems to persecute, imprison and weaken members of social and popular movements, the assassination of social leaders in several countries in the region and the massacres, brutal repression and banning of Social protest.
It would be fair that on all these issues the representatives of civil organizations, trade unions, and social movements, trained in the daily confrontation with the harsh realities that the continent lives, and not in a selective and discriminatory manner toward those who have been artificially designed as a precarious opposition, paid and manipulated, at the service of the aspirations of US domination.
Gathered today in Havana, we reject the claim of the United States government to unsuccessfully isolate Cuba and express our unwavering support to this Island, which has always extended its hand of solidarity and has served as a platform in defense of the noblest causes of our peoples.
We support genuine efforts to promote integration based on civilized coexistence, peace, respect for diversity, and solidarity throughout the hemisphere. We recognize the position assumed by organizations and governments that, honoring their peoples, have participated in raising their voices in these summits, against injustice and in defense of peace, respect, and civilized coexistence.
We urge the organizations and social movements of the Americas to firmly support and actively participate in the People's Summit, which will be held from June 8 to 10 in the city of Los Angeles, as a genuine space for civil society in the region, always excluded and silenced by the submissive OAS and its mechanisms of imperial intervention.
(Cuba minrex)