Ottawa, Feb 28 (Prensa Latina) Associations of Cubans residing in Canada and the United States demanded this Sunday the lifting of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.
In the cities of Miami, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Ottawa and Montreal, groups of protesters spoke out against Washington’s policies that affect the population of the Greater Antilles.
Yuri Pedraza, president of the Cuban Community in Canada, when expressing his opposition to US policy, declared that the blockade is the most genocidal way to attack people, the most hypocritical way of trying to overthrow a system and the most cowardly way of try to make someone change their way of being.
While in the United States the eighth edition of the ‘Puentes de Amor’ caravans took place this Sunday, in favor of the elimination of the economic sanctions imposed on Cuba and by Cuban families, which began on July 26, from the convocation in social networks of the Cuban youtuber ‘Protestón Cubano’.
The protesters in cities of both nations called for «building bridges of love between the peoples of Cuba and the United States,» in continuity with the caravans organized and carried out in Miami by the Alianza Martiana Coalition for several years.
I demand that the United States government stop the criminal blockade against my people, which constitutes a genocide of more than 60 years, which does not allow my Cuban brothers to develop in peace and tranquility, declared Alina Velázquez, member of the José Martí Cultural Association .
On January 31, hundreds of Cubans living in the United States and friends of Cuba traveled the streets on bicycles and cars in Miami, New York, Seattle and Los Angeles, to oppose the blockade and also pay tribute to José Martí, on the 168th anniversary of his birth.
In addition to demanding the end of Washington’s extraterritorial policy that has affected the island, its economy and its people for more than 60 years, the caravanistas supported the work of Cuban doctors and supported international requests for them to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for La Paz the members of the Cuban Medical Brigades ‘Henry Reeve’.
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