Mr. President;
Distinguished Permanent Representatives;
Esteemed delegates;
On October 26 and 27, as part of the international campaign #TumbaElBloqueo, and before the votes in the United Nations on the Cuban resolution against the blockade, organizations in solidarity with Cuba took to the streets of several U.S. cities to protest against this policy, the unilateral sanctions and the unjust designation of our country as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Between October 20 and 24, officials of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC, Alejandro García del Toro, Deputy Chief of Mission; Nora Alberteris Monterrey, Consul General, Thalia Gonzalez Gomez, and Yeisel Lorenzo Guerra, visited the state of Kentucky, specifically the cities of Louisville and Frankfort. The meetings held covered diverse sectors of U.S. society such as universities, businesses, an African American community center, travel agencies, and local politicians.
“We are still in combat, we are still working to address these two critical situations that place an exceptional condition in the lives of Cubans, and we will be permanently in contact with our people to the same extent that we are making progress in addressing these problems.”
The phrase, shared this Monday afternoon by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, has to do with the two contingencies affecting the Cuban people: the energy emergency and the impacts left by the passing of the Oscar weather phenomenon.
With the same force, they sang 156 years later the redemptive hymn that Perucho Figueredo, mounted on his horse, made known as lyrics of the war march La Bayamesa.
It was in the city of Bayamo, for the first time “free from the foreign yoke, with a history that began as mamba and then became rebellious...” that the hymn was sung, said the young diplomat Gabriela Castillo.
A sublime mixture of the most deep-rooted roots, Cuban culture constitutes a moral trench that exalts the emancipating work of the homeland, she stressed.