A Cuban delegation headed by the coordinator of the Africa and Middle East area of the Department of International Relations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Gerardo Suárez Álvarez, attended the Third Pan-African Conference, which It was hosted by the Pedagogical University of Winneba (in the Central region), from September 20 to 23.
The Third Pan-African Congress held in Ghana, was conceived by its Organizing Committee, as a regional preparatory event for the "International Conference of All Nations", which will be hosted by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in February 2019.
Within the framework of the event, special recognition was given to Cuba, for the contribution of its internationalist fighters to the independence of the continent and for the outstanding work of its health workers. The head of the Cuban delegation and Dr. Ana Lubín García, Chief of the Cuban Medical Brigade that works in Ghana, thanked the attendees for their expressions of solidarity with Cuba and reaffirmed their commitment to continue cooperating with the African peoples.
The attendees of the Event strongly condemned the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba for more than fifty years by successive US administrations, and ratified that they will continue to be mobilized until their final and complete uprising.
Also leaders such as the Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro and Commander Ernesto Ché Guevara, precursors of Cuban internationalism on the continent were remembered in an Event, which had as a thematic axis the pan-African, anti-imperialist and transformative legacy of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
The Cuban delegation was also integrated by: María del Carmen Barroso González, Izett Sama Hernández and Mario Manuel Molina Monteagudo, representatives of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), the Martin Luther King Center and the Solidarity Organization of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL), respectively, who witnessed the hospitality and affection of the participants in the Event.
The delegates visited Elmina Castle, a place destined for the concentration and subsequent exile to the Americas of Africans, in conditions of slavery. There they verified the brutality on which the development of the capitalist system was cemented.
The Cuban delegates were received and saw off at the Accra International Airport by the Ambassador, Pedro Luis Despaigne González and a member of the Cuban Embassy staff.