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They demand that President Joe Biden and his administration return the illegally occupied territory in Guantánamo, used as an illegitimate dungeon to torture prisoners.

They also demand that they stop considering Cuba on their infamous list of countries that sponsor terrorism and urge them to show a democratic vocation with a policy of respect for the sovereignty and self-determination of the Caribbean nation and start a new era of bilateral relations. .

In the rapporteur part, the text indicates that 557 delegates from political, social and civil society organizations from 30 states of the Mexican Republic attended the event.

Also citizens of Cuba, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua, in addition to their respective ambassadors, including that of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, as well as a representation of Russia and Algeria.

The delegates considered that the relations of friendship and solidarity between Mexico and Cuba are historic and indestructible and have brought them together at this meeting, where conferences, workshops and analysis of the Cuban reality were held to develop strategies and a national work plan for 2023. and 2024.

He points out that the blockade has not achieved its objectives and recalls that the United Nations General Assembly condemns this absurd and obsolete policy, the main impediment to the integral development of the largest island in the Antilles.

They consider it equally absurd that the current US administration keeps Cuba on its spurious list of terrorist countries.

The delegates endorsed the courageous and correct foreign policy of the government of Mexico and its president Andrés Manuel López Obrador towards the nations of the world, especially towards Cuba, whose people and government have always been on the side of their Mexican counterparts.

The declaration highlights the presence of more than 600 Cuban doctors in 26 municipalities in 12 states of the Republic, taking care of the health of the people, as well as the National Hero and one of the Five Cuban anti-terrorists, Ramón Labañino, his compatriot Elier Ramírez, deputy director of the Fidel Castro Center, and Dr. Jorge Alberto Miranda, director of the October 10 Hospital.

The conclusions of the meeting were delivered by the Argentine Norberto Galiotti (Champa), general coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Continental Network of Solidarity with Cuba, who urged universal support for Cuba and the battle against the blockade to defeat the United States.

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