More than 1,000 foreign delegates will participate today in the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and anti-imperialism 200 years after the Monroe Doctrine at the Havana Convention Center.
The foreign visitors will be joined by around 200 national delegates who, together, will raise their voices against the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade and in favor of the elimination of the Caribbean country from Washington's unilateral list of nations that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
During the last few days, the friends who traveled to the island attended the XIII International Scientific Workshop May Day, which had among its main axes the contemporary debate on historiography, theory and method for the study of labor and workers; as well as social movements in the Americas.
Migration, labor force and labor policies; the history of the workers' movement; and the historical and cultural heritage of workers and peasants were other topics of interest.
Delegates to the traditional solidarity event also shared with 14 labor collectives and residents of Havana's neighborhoods, where they learned about the projects being carried out for the transformation of the capital's communities.
Among those attending the event, organized by the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) and the Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples), there are union leaders, as well as leaders of solidarity organizations and social movements.
The Monroe Doctrine (America for the Americans), was attributed in 1823 to James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States (1817-1825).
However, on April 28 of that year, two centuries ago, then U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, who later occupied the Oval Office, outlined to Cuba the so-called "law of gravitation", or as it is known, the "low-hanging fruit" theory.
In his approach, Cuban writer and researcher Abel Gonzalez wrote in a recent article, he compared the island to a fruit that would inevitably be annexed to the United States, once it was detached from the Spanish colonial trunk because of its maturity.
For Monroe, the acquisition of Cuba for the Union would be of the utmost importance, among other aspects for the prosperity and aggrandizement of the northern country.
Not a few analysts maintain that the true history of the doctrine began at the end of the 19th century when it became offensive and served to justify U.S.-style annexations.