MIAMI, United States. — The Spanish businesswoman and architect of Cuban origin Rocío Monasterio, and MEP Hermann Tertsch, both representatives of the Vox political partywere declared this Friday “ambassadors of Cuban exile.”
Monastery and Tertsch, open critics of the Castro-communist regimewere present at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, where they were recognized by exile organizations in Miami such as the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC) and the Inspire America Foundation.
Orlando Gutiérrez, coordinator of the ARC, thanked the politicians “for their courageous fight to defend the cause of Cuba against the structure of the left, which always defends the communist regime of Cuba.”
According to an agency report Europe PressMonasterio and MEP Tertsch, who traveled to the United States together with a delegation from the Madrid Forum, also received the keys to Miami from Commissioner Joe Carollo.
Monasterio, VOX candidate for the Presidency of the Community of Madrid, thanked both recognitions and promised to continue working to fulfill the promise she made to her children: “to be able to return one day to a free Cuba.”
“Cuban families need a voice and we at VOX are committed to giving them a voice,” said the businesswoman in her speech.
The Madrid Forum, an organization that both politicians represent, is an international alliance of leaders, entities and parties that defend Freedom, Democracy and the Rule of Law in the face of the advance of the extreme left in countries on both sides of the Atlantic. In this sense, as its own members have recognized, it works as a counterpart to the Sao Paulo Forum, a platform sponsored for several decades by the Cuban dictatorship and allied regimes.
