The cities of Miami, New York and towns in the state of Tennessee were the scene today of a great vigil for peace and against the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by successive United States governments on the Caribbean country.
Despite the characteristic low temperatures here at this time of year, there was a collective response to the call made by the solidarity project Puentes de Amor.
The participants demanded the lifting of the sanctions that weigh on Cuban families and agreed that bridges of love need to be built between the peoples of the United States and Cuba.
They also advocated in favor of rapprochement between the two countries, a process that began in the last stage of Barack Obama’s term (2009-2017) that was interrupted by his successor Donald Trump (2017-2021) and that the current president continues with a similar line. Joe Biden.
“End the blockade,” “Let Cuba live,” were some of the slogans that were heard.
There were also reports of actions in Vancouver and Winnipeg (Canada), San José (Costa Rica) and in the Federal District of Mexico, where a letter was sent to Biden in which they invited him to change his anti-Cuban attitude.
For his part, the activist Carlos Lazo, coordinator of Bridges of Love and currently in Rome, carried out a pilgrimage of a hundred kilometers, in four stages, along the route of San Francisco from Assisi to the Italian capital.
Since the beginning of the year, the project led by the Cuban professor residing in the United States has been carrying out caravans every month to end the unilateral siege of Washington to the island.
The solidarity initiative, which is replicated in various parts of the planet, multiplies the demand for Biden to fulfill his electoral promise when he said that he would reverse the policy of sanctions and hostility towards Cuba if he reached the White House.
But 11 months after taking office, the Democratic leader, far from promoting that change, follows the same route as Trump with respect to the largest of the Antilles, who reinforced the blockade with 243 measures so far intact.
