Cuba will never forget the solidarity of Mexico, in the most difficult moments

Arturo Sanchez Jimenez and Eirinet Gomez

Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday May 15, 2022, p. eleven

The Cuban ambassador to Mexico, Marcos Rodríguez Costa, yesterday expressed his gratitude to the Mexican people and government for their solidarity in the most difficult moments of the pandemic in our country. It’s something we’ll never forgetdeclared at the opening of the 26th National Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, which takes place this weekend in Xalapa, Veracruz.

The diplomat also thanked Mexico for its firm support in condemning the blockade, according to information released by the embassy.

The inhabitants of the island, said Rodríguez Costa, we have the firm conviction that Cuba will continue to count on the friendship, support and love of Mexico.

During the meeting, organized by the Mexican Movement of Solidarity with Cuba, pediatrician Aleida Guevara March, daughter of the emblematic revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara offered a conference in which he assured that the revolutionary and supportive spirit must be maintained with daily work.

He pointed out that it is essential that young people feel ownership of the revolutionary process so that they are in a position to find solutions to old problems.

Mexican and Cuban authorities inaugurated the meeting, where they expressed the political coincidences between both nations.

Guevara said that the thought of his father Unfortunately It is still valid and very current, and I say unfortunately because that means that we have not yet put into practice everything that he bequeathed us, everything that he taught us.

He mentioned the criticism made by the Che Guevara to the rulers who dedicated their time to promote themselves instead of taking action to improve the conditions of their governed and also the contempt for political rhetoric, which was not reflected in the facts.

“One of the most beautiful things that the Che Guevara was that what he thought he said, and what he said, he really did.

During the welcome to the meeting, the head of the Secretary of Education of Veracruz, Zenyazen Escobar, explained that there is a great history between the state and the island, in favor of the Cuban democratic revolution, and added that the 4T government shares ideals of struggle such as social justice, respect for sovereignty and love of country.

Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, hero of the Republic of Cuba and national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, assured that with his position in favor of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua being at the Summit of the Americas that will be in Los Angeles in June , President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has raised even higher the dignity of this people, who do not kneel before the empire.