Paris/Prensa Latina
The Cuban ambassador to France, Otto Vaillant, denounced here today at a peace conference organized by the French Communist Party (PCF) the blockade that the United States imposes on his country and the consequences of that policy.
Speaking at a round table dedicated to the sovereign right of peoples to choose their path, the diplomat stated that the Caribbean island has faced an economic, commercial and financial blockade from Washington for more than 60 years, precisely for exercising that right to self-determination. .
“It is not easy for a small country to build this path against a great empire, but we will continue to win,” he warned at the event, which at the PCF headquarters attracted guests from progressive organizations from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe.
According to Vaillant, the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959 represented for Cuba the opportunity to achieve and consolidate its full sovereignty and independence, a fact that the powerful neighbor to the North does not accept.
They are conquests that we have had to defend in more than six decades of constant aggression, with a blockade that affects the population and generates many difficulties, he explained.
The Cuban ambassador asserted that despite so much American hostility, the Antillean nation remains firm in the construction of its own social project and maintains its commitment to international solidarity.
At the opening of the peace conference, the head of International Relations of the PCF, Vincent Boulet, reiterated the organization’s rejection of the US blockade suffered by the island and its inclusion in Washington’s unilateral list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
Boulet recalled that last year the French communists launched a campaign to support Cuba in the face of the consequences of the siege and its extraterritorial nature.
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