Havana, 31 August, 2024.- Manolo De los Santos, executive director of the People's Forum in New York City, has affirmed that the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba is a policy of genocide.
"One of the examples of genocide in international law is to deprive a people of its food, and we see this clearly in the case of the US government's hostility towards the Cuban people," the Dominican-American activist said in Havana.
He commented that "the same government that is financing the genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza is also imposing a genocide against the Cuban people".
De los Santos presided over the donation to the island of 800 tons of wheat flour, acquired as a result of the Let Cuba Live "Bread for Our Neighbours" campaign, promoted by The People's Forum, an organisation based in the United States, and explained that thousands of citizens from different nations responded to the initiative, "from people who donated one dollar to people who donated thousands of dollars".
"They are all convinced that we need a different kind of policy in favour of relations between Cuba and the United States," he added.
He pointed out that all of this is possible thanks to the fraternity and working relationship with the Martin Luther King Center, "with which we have carried out deliveries of powdered milk and other products necessary for life".
The donation, whose first delivery was made at the La Vivoreña bakery in the capital's Diez de Octubre municipality, will be distributed in the provinces of Pinar del Río, Mayabeque, Artemisa, Havana and Matanzas.
(Cuban Embassy in South Africa - Prensa Latina)