The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, met this Saturday with more than a thousand members of the solidarity movement with the Caribbean country, who expressed their support for the revolution and called for the government of the United States (USA) to resign at the end the economic, trade and financial blockade imposed on Havana for more than six decades.
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President Díaz-Canel meets with Cubans living in Portugal
The head of state visited the historic headquarters of the workers’ newspaper Voz del Operario in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, in whose auditorium he spoke to more than a thousand people who came from different parts of Portugal to support Cuba and its people the inclusion of this country in the list of Reject sponsorship of terrorism.
There, in an emotional act, he said that despite the difficulties and aggression, Cuba is neither giving up nor bowing down. He pointed out that his country was making resolute progress in modernizing its economic and social model and was not denying but affirming its belief in socialist construction.
����| “Cuba will win!” shouted more than a thousand people gathered at the historic headquarters of La Voz del Operario in Lisbon during a beautiful act of solidarity with the Caribbean island attended by the President @DiazCanelB and the delegation accompanying him on his state visit. pic.twitter.com/PNqBJdpVru
— Presidency of Cuba ���� (@PresidenciaCuba)
July 15, 2023
He thanked those present for the expressions of solidarity and support, including representatives of trade unions, associations and the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).
In statements circulated on the PCP’s social networks, its Secretary General, Paulo Raimundo, stated that any solidarity with Cuba was small compared to the active solidarity aid that the Caribbean country is providing to other peoples of the world.
✊�������� “I would say that the solidarity we show for the Cuban people, for the revolution, will always be little solidarity.”
Face the solidarity that the Cuban people and state show to people around the world.
+ pic.twitter.com/l1dDzmyfV4– PCP (@pcp_pt)
July 15, 2023
He expressed that the support shown to Cuba during the act was a recognition of his example of dignity, his fight for sovereignty and his relentless resistance to the US criminal blockade.
Díaz-Canel also visited the Saramago Foundation in Lisbon, where he was received by Pilar del Río, widow of the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner for literature. This room hosted the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the Cuban national hero, José Martí, which included works by painters from the Caribbean country who were inspired by the Apostle.
��| An exhibition dedicated to the Cuban national hero, José Martí, opened this afternoon with works by Cuban painters inspired by the Apostle.
Pilar de Río said in her opening speech that Martí #Cuba And #Portugal they are closer. pic.twitter.com/ZILAs6nfsl
— Presidency of Cuba ���� (@PresidenciaCuba)
July 15, 2023
Opening the exhibition entitled “José Martí in Cuban Plastic Arts”, Pilar del Río believed that Martí brings together the peoples of both nations. This way of guiding the relations between the peoples of Cuba and Portugal was confirmed by the Cuban leader. Personalities, intellectuals and Portuguese creators attended the ceremony.
He also recalled the admiration that Saramago felt for Cuba and expressed that his country appreciated the exhibition that had opened there as a gesture that gave continuity to this mutual affection.
president @DiazCanelB visited with his wife @liscuestacuba and the delegation accompanying him #Portugalthe Aljube Museum, a room documenting the resistance of the Portuguese people to fascism.
It is the second day of his state visit to Portugal. ����#Cuba ���� pic.twitter.com/BhXlfOy59f
— Presidency of Cuba ���� (@PresidenciaCuba)
July 15, 2023
This Saturday, the Cuban guide visited the Aljube Museum, a former prison turned cultural center documenting the resistance of the Portuguese people to the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar and to fascism.
Díaz-Canel will stay in Lisbon until Sunday and then travel to the Belgian capital of Brussels to attend the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and the European Union.