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Actions in Solidarity with Cuba Underway in Latin America.

CUBA, March 17, 2011.- Several actions in solidarity with Cuba take place on Thursday, March 17, in the Dominican Republic, Argentina and Chile.

In the province of Sabaneta, in the Dominican Republic, Channel 10 of the national television will broadcast a round table on Cuba, specifically on its culture, policy, education, and sports; as well as on the US economic blockade, and on the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly imprisoned in the US since 1998.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, Raymundo Infante and Agustin Gomez will be the hosts of this special program, which will recall the signing of the Manifesto of Montecristi by General Maximo Gomez and Jose Marti, on March 25, 1895.

This action will also be commemorated during a rally with the attendance of officials from the Cuban diplomatic mission in the Dominican Republic, including Ambassador Juan Astiasarán Ceballo.

The exhibit “Cuba in Images,” by journalist Felix Jacinto Breton, is open to the public in Sabaneta since last February 22.

In Argentina, in the municipality of Trenque Lauquen, the president of the foundation “A Better World is Possible,” Claundia Camba, will talk about the Cuban “Yes, I Can” literacy method and the “Operacion Milagro” free eye-care program, which will end a week of solidarity with Cuba in that nation.

During this week of solidarity with Cuba, the Cuban ambassador to Argentina, Jorge Lamadrid, offered a lectured entitled “Cuba Today”, and Carlos Calica Ferrer —who accompanied Ernesto Che Guevara on his second tour around Latin America— gave a lecture called “My friend Che”.

In Santiago de Chile, professors, students and members of human rights organizations will protest on Thursday against the visit of US president Barack Obama, and they will demand the end of the US economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed against Cuba for more than 50 years and the immediate release of Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Rene Gonzalez ––internationally known as the Cuban Five––, who were unjustly imprisoned in 1998 for trying to prevent terrorist actions against Cuba organized by right-wing groups in the United States. (Cubaminrex-AIN)

 

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