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Mexicans Demand End of US Blockade Against Cuba and Freedom of Cuban Five.

CUBA, 15 March 2011.- Mexico’s 16th National Conference on Solidarity with Cuba urged the United States to respect the island’s right to sovereignty and self-determination and lift the economic, financial and commercial blockade against that country, Prensa Latina reported.

Participants in the meeting held at the Workers’ University of Mexico (Universidad Obrera de Mexico) also claimed for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the US.

The document passed during the closing session of the meeting criticizes the American government’s double standards noting that while encouraging illegal immigration from the island, Washington punishes American companies who do business with Cuba and protects terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

In the closing ceremony, a thank-you letter by one of the Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernandez to the Mexican people for the actions they have held for the freedom of the Cuban Five was read.

In the meeting attended by 600 delegates from all over the country, president of the solidarity-with- Cuba committee in Lower California, Jose Luis Alonso, talked about the campaign in Mexico in favor of the Cuban Five: Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez.

Senator with Partido de la Revolución Democrática (Party of the Democratic Revolution), Yeikol Polenski, added that there are 22 committees fighting for the release of the Cuban Five in her country.

In a an interview with PL, Polenski encouraged the people to use internet social networks to inform on what the US is capable of doing to seize not only Cuba but any other country which it can take advantage of such as oil-producing nations. (Cubaminrex-AIN)

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