Cuba thanks the support of the brigade of Latin America and the Caribbean

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Tuesday, July 31, 2018 – 00:00:00 | 11 | |
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Havana, July 31.- Vice President of the 39, Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP)), José Prieto Cintado, thanked his country's support to the members of the XXV Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Brigade with Cuba

after receiving them at Camp International Julio Antonio Mella, located in the city of Caimito, Artemisa, Cintado He praised the enthusiasm, affection and fraternity of the activists towards the Cuban people and its struggle for the preservation of its independence and of his sovereignty.

He emphasized that during these 25 years the Latin American and Caribbean friends have remained – and still do – alongside the Cubans in their fight against the economic, commercial and financial blockade that the United States has imposed on the United States. Greater West Indies for more than half a century.

ICAP argued that they also supported Cuba's claim for the return of the territory illegally occupied by the Nordic country with the naval base in the eastern province of Guantánamo.

Cintado also mentioned the efforts of the brigadistas to spread the truth about the largest Caribbean island in their countries, where the big transnationals of communication, serving the right, are trying to tarnish the government project for the Cuban revolution .

More than 60 members make up the XXV Brigade of Latin America and Caribbean Solidarity with Cuba, which began operations on the island on Monday and will continue until August 12.

Visitors from 13 countries laid a wreath at the foot of the bust erected to Julio Antonio Mella, a young Cuban murdered in Mexico in January 1929 for his political and revolutionary actions that made him a world-clbad leader.

The Enda de los Brigadistas en Isla also includes a Solidarity Encuentro dedicated to the 92nd anniversary of the birth of Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro, as well as productive work and visits to historical and cultural sites to Havana, Pinar de Río and Villa Clara. (Text and photo: PL)