Kingston, 10 December 2023. Member organisations of the Jamaican Cuba Solidarity Movement held their annual meeting on the morning of 10 December. The meeting was attended by the Cuban Ambassador to Jamaica Fermín Quiñones Sánchez, the functionary of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) Tamara Armenteros and the president of the Association of Cuban Residents in Jamaica Osvaldo Cárdenas Junquera.
During the debates, an analysis was made of the main activities developed by the movement during the current year and the work priorities for 2024 were defined, underlining the actions to denounce and demand the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the US government against Cuba and the exclusion of the island from the spurious and unilateral list of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
Tamara Armenteros defined the meeting as a platform of great importance to strengthen the commitment of Jamaican friends to the Cuban Revolution, in the current circumstances marked by the intensification of the genocidal policy of the blockade and the inclusion of our country on the list of State sponsors of terrorism.
In his words to those present, the Cuban Ambassador thanked the Jamaican people for their permanent solidarity and reiterated the importance of maintaining unity; at the same time he denounced the campaign orchestrated by the US against the medical collaboration that Cuba offers selflessly to sister nations.
During the meeting, dedicated to Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, a declaration was unanimously approved urging the US government to join the majority of the "peoples of humanity" and withdraw from the path of aggression manifested in the persistence of the blockade and the inclusion of the largest of the Antilles in the list of nations that sponsor terrorism.