The participants of the Fourth Congress of the Latin American and Caribbean Federation of Construction, Timber and Building Materials (Flemacón), which met in Santiago de Chile and will end on Sunday, condemned the US government’s economic, commercial and financial blockade against the Cuban people and its impact on this sector.
Misael Rodríguez Llanes, center of the Presidency, represents Cuba at the Fourth Congress of Phlemacon. Photo: SNTC
At the venue of the event, Misael Rodríguez Llanes, Secretary General of the National Union of Construction Workers (SNTC) representing Cuba, reported that they analyzed the labor situation in the region, the unions in Colombia and Brazil and the reaffirmation of the class role of the Confederation, among others .
Lucía Costa Maia, President of Flemacon, pointed out that the Congress made it possible to unify criteria in order to strengthen unity and push forward the struggles to defend the rights of workers in the region and of the working class around the world.
He added that this association, founded in 1970, is holding the event at a historic time when it is important to address solidarity and humanism.
Assessments made included the global economic crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic; the environmental impacts that have caused climate change, which can drastically affect life on the planet, as well as genocides, wars and imperialist attacks on the sovereignty of peoples.
The leaders of the construction unions of Latin America and the Caribbean have met at a time when it is necessary to join forces to confront and defeat the Nazi-fascist far right, which has reemerged and is trying to reorganize and take the offensive in the attack to strengthen freedoms and democratic rights, intensification of interventionism, interference and threats of coups, aggression against sovereign states, denial of international law, the UN and its charter, multilateralism and diplomacy, in the heightening of tensions and in the preparation and outbreak of conflicts .
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Graduated as Professor of General Education from the Félix Varela Higher Pedagogical Institute in Villa Clara, Cuba (1979). He worked for the magazine Juventud Técnica, the weekly En Guardia, a central army organ, the newspapers Escambray, CINCO de Septiembre and . Since 2007 he has been a correspondent for Trabajadores in the province of Cienfuegos. He specializes in economic and agricultural issues. In 1999, in a journalistic capacity, he accompanied the second Cuban medical brigade that arrived in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras. He published the book “Truths Without a Port” (Cuban editorial board MECENAS). He has been to this Central American nation three more times in journalism roles, lecturing to university students, advising the media, and teaching journalism updating courses and workshops for journalists and communicators. Multiple awards at international, national and regional journalism prizes and competitions. He was awarded the Manuel Hurtado del Valle (Cienfuegos) Provincial Journalistic Prize for the Work of Life – 2012. He was awarded the seal bestowed by the National Union of Culture Workers (SNTC). Retains the professional rating of Exceptional.