The Delegation of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) in Las Tunas revived its work in 2022  to encourage solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, benefited from the improvement of the country’s epidemiological situation, and supported by the efforts of a small but united collective.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- "It has been a year of sustained and active work," said María Romero, ICAP delegate here, summarizing what has been done in this calendar about to end. In the balance meeting, she was accompanied by the representatives of organizations and institutions, the Government, the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), and the civil society that maintains perennial ties with the international movement of solidarity with Cuba. In 2022, ICAP Las Tunas expanded and diversified its ties to reach more than a dozen organizations sympathetic to Cuba in nations of the Americas and Europe, she highlighted.

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The control achieved over the COVID-19 pandemic allowed resuming face-to-face contact with the members of the friendship associations of Italy and Finland; while they strengthened the attention of foreigners who are studying at the local University of Medical Sciences (UCM). Likewise, Romero recalled, they received four groups of friends from Sweden, Belgium, and Portugal, and almost thirty people who individually came to the Balcón del Oriente Cubano (Eastern Cuban Balcony) to demonstrate their support for the Cuban right to self-determination and the search for all possible social justice. By 2023, she assured that they intend to expand these experiences with other countries, and will continue to strengthen their presence on digital platforms.

In this regard, Noemí Rabaza Fernández, first vice president of ICAP, after commending what has been achieved from this territory, commented that the denunciation of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade that the US has maintained for more than 60 years will continue to be a priority. "It is an act of war and genocide that primarily affects the Cuban family. So, we have to work so that our friends in more than 150 countries, grouped in more than two thousand organizations, denounce it.”

She affirmed that the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People, which celebrates this Saturday its 62nd anniversary, will persist in its support for just causes throughout the world and defense of the right to peace and development of all nations.

"Solidarity, for Cubans, is a foundational value that was born when Carlos Manuel de Céspedes freed his slaves and said that Cuba aspired to be a great and civilized nation to extend a friendly arm and a fraternal heart to other peoples,” she concluded.