9th Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba Opens in Mexico City
More than 250 delegates from 23 countries attended the opening ceremony, where they expressed their support for the Cuban Revolution and solidarity with Palestine.
More than 250 delegates from 23 countries attended the opening ceremony, where they expressed their support for the Cuban Revolution and solidarity with Palestine.
The theme: the union of the two cultures and the start of year-round activities to raise funds for the An Oil Ship for Cuba campaign and to celebrate the centennial of Comandante Fidel Castro’s birth.
Cuban scholar Jorge Hernández Martínez’s presentation to the 29th International Seminar of the Workers Party of Mexico.
The ship, carrying oil and other supplies, “will contribute to improving the electricity supply in hospitals, schools, industries, and homes, and will help Cuba’s economy function better.”
Overthrowing a tyranny through insurrection and a professional army seemed feasible, and at that time, it was the only way to achieve it.
The Mexican President called for the Cuauhtémoc borough to coordinate with Mexico City’s government to seek relocation of the monument commemorating Fidel & Che’s first meeting in Mexico.
“The true Revolution is not made of stone or bronze: it is a transformed consciousness, the collective will to fight and build a more just world,” said Cuban Ambassador to Mexico Marcos Rodríguez Costa, after the illegal removal of Fidel and Che statues in Mexico City.
The monument to Fidel Castro and Che Guevara at Tabacalera factory was removed by Cuauhtémoc mayor & ultra-right winger Alessandra Rojo de la Vega.
“We must aim for the Meeting to be a real contribution to confronting the current counterrevolutionary offensive of US imperialism, in pursuit of the broadest possible unity of leftist forces in the region, strengthening militant solidarity for Cuba and for the just causes defended by our peoples”
The oil Cuba requires to sustain its energy demands in the face of vicious US sanctions and financial attacks is truly minimal compared to Mexican production.