CDMX, Mexico-. while in Cuba activists and journalists were harassed As traditionally happens every December 10, Human Rights Day, the rapprochement between the island’s government and the United States took a new step.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reported who met in Havana with a delegation of congressmen from the United States House of Representatives.
The delegation, headed by Democrat James McGovern, traveled with the desire to improve bilateral relations, according to the president.
“I received a delegation from the United States Congress chaired by James McGovern. We address our differences and topics of common interest. The shared will to improve bilateral relations was ratified. I expressed the need to put an end to measures that harm the Cuban population,” Díaz-Canel wrote on Twitter.
James McGovern, who chairs the Committee on the Rules of the US House of Representatives, said at the meeting that they want to “work to tear down the walls, to have a more mature and constructive relationship, for the benefit of the peoples of Cuba and the United States.” .
In addition to McGovern, Mark Pocan and Troy Anthony Carter, members of the House of Representatives for the Democratic Party, visit Cuba. Everyone went this Saturday to the headquarters of the National Assembly of Cuba.
McGovern (Massachusetts representative), Pocan (Wisconsin) and Carter (Louisiana) exchanged with Cuban deputies and members of the Foreign Ministry. However, there was no civil society presence there.
The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, one of the vice ministers, Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, and the deputy director general in charge of the US in the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Johana Tablada de la Torre. In addition to Esteban Lazo, president of the National Assembly.
Some McGovern facts
In July of this year, the US House of Representatives rejected a proposal by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib that would facilitate the sale of agricultural products to the Cuban government. Among the congressmen who supported the project is James McGovern, precisely.
McGovern is the co-chair of the US Commission on Human Rights. He has been a leading voice denounced violations in El Salvador, for instance. In his speeches, he has made public his concern about the constant abuses of power, such as arbitrary captures, torture and death in prisons that are suffered in the Central American nation.
However, in the case of Cuba and human rights violations, it has not been so consistent. James visibly bets on the reestablishment of relations between the United States and the dictatorship. In fact, this is at least his fourth meeting with Cuban authorities.
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