Participants in the XIII Meeting of Cuban Residents in Europe (ECRE) today raise their voice against the US blockade of the Caribbean country, said the president of Cubabel, the event”s organizing association, Menia Martínez.
Residents in Santiago de Cuba gathered on Tuesday at the former civil hospital, currently the Abel Santamaria Museum of History, to remember the self-defense plea made there by Fidel Castro 65 years ago, after the attack on the Moncada Garrison.
Cubans working abroad or residing outside the island continue today participating in debates about a new constitution for the Caribbean country.
The president of the Union of Cuban Residents in Argentina (URCA), Adonis Torres, has highlighted today the importance of the historic consultation and popular debate on the draft Constitution of the island, in which everyone can participate.
The mass, social, peasant and workers” organizations of this city have declared today ready to begin the process of popular consultation on the Draft Constitution of the Republic of Cuba today.
All Cubans will be a constituent in the popular referendum that will begin on Monday on the draft of the constitution of Cuba, said Marcela González, member of the national team for processing the proposals.
All Cuban citizens, whether residents in the island or not, will have the opportunity to participate in the debates on the new Constitution project, said here today Foreign Ministry official Ernesto Soberon.
Thousands of Cubans in the west of the country already have in their hands the draft of the new Constitution, a text which will also be available today and tomorrow in the center and east of the island.
The draft of the new Constitution will be submitted to popular consultation from August 13 to November 15, a process that would lead to the drawing up of a final text before being voted in a referendum for it approval.
The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raul Castro, said on Thursday that putting the draft of the new Constitution up for people’s discussion starting early August is an exercise of democracy.
