(EFE)
“A considerable part of the activists today deprived of liberty are women and Afro-descendants, marked by political violence,” said the letter published on the committee’s social networks.
The anti-racist organization also recognized the “high commitment in the defense of human rights” of the vice president of the Government of Gustavo Petro.
“We appeal to their social sensitivity and their high commitment to the defense of human rights, and to the eradication of structural inequalities,” they affirmed.
“We appeal to your social sensitivity and your high commitment to the defense of human rights, and to the eradication of structural inequalities, so that you convey our concerns to the Cuban authorities,” the CIR indicated.
“Here, like you in our sister nation (Colombia), we risk our lives every day, until dignity becomes customary, for the common good,” they added.
Márquez traveled to Cuba to inaugurate this Thursday the Havana International Book Fair, dedicated this year to Colombia.
His visit represents an “invaluable opportunity” to “strengthen the ties of friendship” in “the new era of political relations” between the two countries, the Colombian Vice Presidency explained in a statement.
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