“This people and this nation do not deserve one more year under this unjust policy, the Mexican parliamentary leader told the press at the Melia Cohiba hotel, venue of the 11th Cuba-Mexico Inter-parliamentary Meeting. After noting that Obama should gradually or permanently lift the blockade, the legislator said the Mexican Senate will continue supporting the Cuban government and people in their fight against this criminal policy. Navarrete recalled that the Mexican Senate passed a resolution, condemning the unjust incarceration of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters in the United States. Legislators from more than seven Mexican political parties make up the Aztecan delegation attending the meeting along with Cuban deputies. Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon highlighted that the two nations are united by deep and solid friendship bonds. “Our gratitude to Mexico, for the great support shown by its people towards the island in particular in recent expressions of solidarity with the cause of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States,” he said. At the beginning of the meeting, Havana Historian Eusebio Leal Spengler, President of the Cuba-Mexico Parliamentary Group, said the meeting is taking place within a historical framework that can not be ignored, that is the 200th anniversary of the Mexican independence, the 100th anniversary of the country’s Revolution and the 200th anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, as well the 108th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and Mexico. The president of the Mexican Senate also took the opportunity to announce a visit to Cuba by Mexican President Felipe Calderón later this year, as well as an increase in direct flights between the two countries. “Trade and tourism from Mexico will increase towards Havana and other Cuban places,” he said. (Cubaminrex - RHC) |