Managua, Nicaragua.- Solidarity and trade union groups in Nicaragua ratified their support for the Cuban Revolution, condemned the US blockade, and expressed support for the constitutional reform in the Caribbean island.
After a meeting at which Cuba’s reality was debated and analyzed, among other matters, the Association of Friends of Cuba, the Nicaraguan Association of Friends of Socialism an Peace, the Union of Journalists of Nicaragua and the Love for Cuba Solidarity Group issued a communiqué in that regard.
The document recalled that Washington’s economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba has been in force for nearly 60 years.
Likewise, it noted that the United Nations General Assembly has approved by overwhelming majorities the draft resolutions that Cuba has submitted on the necessity to end that hostile policy.
‘We demand that the United States lift that criminal imperialist blockade of Cuba that has been in force for more than half a century. We express our support as Sandinista and socialist activists from Nicaragua to demand, denounce and fight that obsolete and immoral policy, the communiqué stated.
The organizations noted that the blockade not only affects the functions of the government of the brother country, but mainly its people in sensitive sectors like health care.
Malignant effects are attenuated by the wisdom, courage, scientific leadership and political will of the Cuban socialist government to privilege the proclaimed right in its Constitution that establishes that ‘health is a right of the people and a duty of the State’, the text added.
On the other hand, the organizations also supported, along with the progressive peoples of the world, the unprecedented constitutional reform that is under way in Cuba to give continuity to the economic transformations promoted over the past few years in order to improve, preserve and strengthen the development of socialism.
We have studied the draft reforms and based on that, we support them, because we know that the socialist property of the entire people on the means of production and the planned direction of the economy mainly prevail, the communiqué said.
It added that the reform was necessary for the survival of the Cuban Revolution, while it considered that all hypocrite and ill-intended statements that predict a deviation to the restoration of capitalism in Cuba were perverse.
The organizations also noted that the survival of the Cuban Revolution would depend to a great extent on the struggles by the Latin American and Caribbean peoples for their second ad last independence and solidarity.
The text also charged that in the current international order, the reactionary forces of the world elite were pushing societies to the brink of a third thermonuclear war, for which they have revived military conflicts in the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
The communiqué warned about the rebirth in Europe of the germ of fascism in the xenophobia expressed against migrants, who flee their own countries due to wars and looting of their wealth caused by the imperial trans-nationalization of the former metropolises in their former colonies.
In addition, the organizations criticized the commercial sanctions that the United States and Europe have imposed on Russia, and condemned the interventionist aggressions against Venezuela, which jeopardize peace in the region.