Cuban president highlights international solidarity against blockade

President Miguel Díaz-Canel highlighted the expressions of solidarity Cuba received in a new international day of caravans against the blockade imposed by the United States.

On the 171st birthday of Cuba’s National Hero, José Martí, almost 20 cities worldwide, while paying tribute to the Apostle of Independence, demanded the lifting of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba.

Díaz-Canel highlighted on the X platform that compatriots and friends of Cuba gathered in squares and avenues around the world in a day #BetterWithoutBlockade in defense of this Revolution “with all and for the good of all,” an example of dignity and humanism.

In response to the call of the Bridges of Love Movement, reports of actions were received from the cities of New York, Miami, Minnesota in the United States; Santa Cruz and La Paz in Bolivia; Manitoba, Ontario, Toronto, and Vancouver in Canada, besides Nicaragua, Ecuador, Guatemala, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Panama, El Salvador, and Venezuela, among other countries.

The tribute to the most universal of the Cubans also reached all Cuban cities, where keynote speeches, forums, workshops, exhibitions by visual artists, contests, and other social network initiatives have taken place to promote and disseminate Martí’s legacy.

The traditional March of the Torches, led by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro, President Miguel Díaz-Canel, and commanders José Ramón Machado, Ramiro Valdés, and Guillermo García, took place in Havana on Saturday evening.

José Martí was a distinguished patriot and outstanding politician, writer, thinker, teacher, and journalist who died in action against the Spanish colonialist troops on May 19, 1895.