Washington, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) Once again, hundreds of people in Miami and various cities around the world joined on Sunday in a new World Caravan to demand that the President of the United States, Joe Biden, end the blockade against Cuba.
«Two years of caravans and we continue until the sanctions are lifted,» said activist Carlos Lazo, coordinator of the Puentes de Amor movement, promoter of the initiative, in Miami describing the atmosphere of the day.
The solidarity action coincided with the 59th anniversary of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King’s famous «I Have a Dream» speech.
Recalling that August 28, 1963, Lazo affirmed that they are heirs to that dream, «but ours goes further, it goes towards the day when the United States lifts the economic war it has on the Cuban people.»
Our dream -he emphasized- is that bridges of love are built between Washington and Havana, between Hialeah and Marianao, between Seattle and Santiago de Cuba and it will come true.
I point out that one day our Cuban and North American children and grandchildren will walk together on that bridge building a better world for our people and all the people of the planet.
We are a peaceful movement, he reiterated, that wants the blockade to be lifted.
On the last weekend of each month, the demand is repeated for Biden to eliminate all sanctions against Cuba and end the unilateral siege imposed by successive governments of the White House, whether they are Democrats or Republicans.
Puentes de Amor is one of the groups that integrates the growing wave of rejection of this hostile policy that has tried to suffocate Cubans for more than six decades.
Biden promised to reverse the failed policies towards the island of his predecessor, Donald Trump, but more than 18 months after his arrival at the executive mansion there are hardly any signs in that direction.
On May 16, the Democratic administration announced some measures on visas, regular migration, travel, remittances and adjustments to regulations for transactions with the non-state sector that were well received, however, they did not touch the very essence of the blockade .
The Cuban authorities expressed in this regard that it is a limited step in the right direction, but that the announcements do not modify the blockade or the main coercive measures adopted by the Trump administration (2017-2021) at all.
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