"An Island on a Continent"

Banjul, July 25. – The president of the Gambia-Cuba Friendship Association, Joseph Modou Peh Grant, congratulated the Caribbean island today, on the occasion of the Day of National Rebellion this July 26, and demanded that the United States lift the criminal blockade that it has imposed on it for more than of six decades.

In a message sent to the Cuban embassy here, Grant wrote: “allow me to join the millions of sympathizers and solidarity movements around the world to congratulate the Government and people of the largest of the Antilles on such an important historical date.”

He recalled that July 26, 1953 was undoubtedly the restart of the fight for the island’s independence, after the assaults on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, commanded by the historical leader Fidel Castro.

He stressed that, when celebrating the Day of National Rebellion of Cuba, we cannot stop demanding the end of the tightened blockade maintained by the United States, and the exclusion of the oldest Antillean archipelago from Washington’s arbitrary list of countries that sponsor terrorism.

In the text, the president of the Gambian Friendship Association quotes the well-known phrase Heroic Guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara: «The United States is not the champion of freedom, but rather the perpetrator of exploitation and oppression against the peoples of the world, and discriminates against the majority of his own people.