Sri Lanka condemns US aggressiveness against Cuba
Colombo, Feb 1 (Prensa Latina) The Peace and Solidarity Council of Sri Lanka today strongly condemned the reinstatement of Cuba in the list created by the United States of nations sponsoring terrorism.
In a statement, the organization also called for the lifting of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade that Washington has maintained for more than 60 years against the Cuban people.
As shameful, it described the decision of the recently installed Executive in the White House.
Sri Lanka Peace and Solidarity Council condemns the reinstatement of Cuba on the list of “states sponsor of terrorism
The second Trump administration in the USA, in a shameful action on its very first day in office, has reinstated Cuba on the list of “state sponsors of terrorism”. Equally, responsible is the Biden administration which, after keeping Cuba on the list for four years, after maintaining and reinforcing all the measures of the barbaric imperialist blockade, decided hypocritically at the tail end of its term to remove Cuba from the list.
Sri Lankan newspaper echoed Cuba's rejection of the decision to use the Guantanamo base as a detention center for migrants
Colombo, January 31, 2025. The Sri Lankan newspaper The Guardian published an article expressing Cuba's rejection of the decision announced by the President of the United States to use the Naval Base in Guantánamo to imprison tens of thousands of migrants that it has proposed to forcibly expel.
Cuba rejects U.S. decision to incarcerate migrants in the Guantanamo Naval Base. Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Cuba rejects the decision announced by the President of the United States to use the Guantanamo Naval Base to imprison tens of thousands of migrants he has proposed to forcibly expel. It is a demonstration of the brutality with which that government is acting to supposedly correct problems created by the economic and social conditions of that country, the government's own management and its foreign policy, including hostility towards countries of origin.
Meeting of the Cuban ambassador with the general secretary of the Sri Lankan JVP party
Colombo, January 28, 2025. The Cuban ambassador to Sri Lanka, Andrés Marcelo González Garrido, was received at the headquarters of the JVP party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, 'People's Liberation Front', by its general secretary Tilvin Silva.
The ambassador thanked them for the solidarity they have always received from this political force and the support for the Cuban revolution that they have shown over many years.