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March in Solidarity with Cuba Held in Argentina

CUBA, July 22, 2010.- Members of political, social, community, labor and student organizations from Argentina walked down the main streets of Buenos Aires in a march called South American March to demand the end of the U.S. economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba.

The call to the march was made through the social networking website Facebook, reported Prensa Latina.

Participants walked from the Obelisk to the headquarters of the foreign ministry, where they delivered a letter addressed to Argentinean minister for foreign affairs Hector Timerman and to the general secretary of the Union of South American Nations, Nestor Kirchner.

The letter demanded the end of Washington’s blockade against Cuba and states that the purpose of the march is to join the world claim for the island’s right to self-determination.

On related news, last week-end in another Argentinean city, Neuquen, located in Patagonia, locals rejected the U.S. policy against the island.

In the meeting, attended by a representative of the Cuban Friendship Institute, Armando Guerra, participants also demanded the release of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998. (Cubaminrex - RHC)