Strengthening the work of solidarity, particularly with foreign students graduating from higher education centers in the territory, and to expand its links with activists, even beyond existing organizations is a priority for the Delegation of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP, in Spanish) in Las Tunas.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- "To guarantee the continuity of the solidarity movement, that is the number one task," stressed Noemí Rabaza, the first vice-president of the Institute, at the meeting which also reviewed the achievements of this institution here in the past year 2023, and which was attended by representatives of governmental and political bodies and civil society that usually maintain working relations with the ICAP.
In this regard, its delegate in Las Tunas, María Romero, commented that they maintain close ties with six existing Cuba solidarity organizations in Italy, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Venezuela, and Denmark. She also stressed "we have strengthened ties with friends of Cuba from Canada, Sweden, Uruguay, and the Netherlands ProCuba Foundation, and with activists from Denmark, Mexico, Chile, and France, as well as with the Church of Christ in Tennessee (USA)". In addition, he said, they expanded their contacts with associations and groups in more than 17 countries in Europe, North and Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa.
In various areas of life in the province, Romero emphasized, the imprint of the solidarity work carried out by all of them continued to be felt in the recent calendar. Especially, he said, in the hospitals and educational centers that received their donations, which were collected with no little difficulty. Precisely because of this, each one is an open crack in the economic siege that for more than six decades the governments of the United States have maintained against our country, he concluded.
For her part, the ICAP national vice-president insisted on the role of the Institute, also in the Balcón de Oriente, as coordinator and manager of existing aid initiatives, and to encourage the presence of activists on Las Tunas soil. She also urged them to continue their efforts to promote the establishment of new local development projects in the land of Vicente García, especially in food production and renewable energy sources. Nor should they lower their arms in the perennial task of ensuring that the donations that arrive here are ordered both in monetary terms and in their practical and agile use, and by the most pressing needs. "This is what it means to creatively overcome the blockade," she said.
