Cuba Urges to Counter US Maneuvers
Mexico - A Cuban Communist Party (PCC)
delegation attending the 15th Sao Paulo
Forum being held in Mexico urged
participants to counter US maneuvers against
achievement made by the Latin American left
wing movement.
Jorge Marti, head of the International
Affairs Department of the PCC Central
Committee, spoke at the plenary session of
the meeting, where the document "Left Wing
Alternatives against the Capitalist Crisis"
was debated.
He noted that actions must be taken timely
in the light of recent developments,
including the creation of the Fourth US
Fleet, the installation of seven US military
bases in Colombia and the coup d'etat in
Honduras.
Marti said leftwing revolutionary parties
and movements in the Sao Paulo Forum are
meeting now to analyze the new swipes the US
is taking like a wounded beast.
He pointed out that in 14 Latin American and
Caribbean countries, parties and political
forces from the Forum are in office or are
part of governing coalitions.
On behalf of the Cuban delegation, Marti
congratulated the Farabundo Marti National
Liberation Front for its victory in the
elections in El Salvador, where Mauricio
Funes and Salvador Sanchez took office as
president and vice president, respectively.
Regarding the coup d'etat in Honduras, the
PCC delegate noted that it was organized by
the US ultra right wing, adding that Costa
Rican President Oscar Arias' "mediation" was
manipulated by the Barack Obama
administration.
Marti pointed out that the coup joined a
long list of destabilizing actions against
Venezuela and Bolivia, and of attacks by the
media and the right wing on all leftwing and
progressive governments in the region.
He added that another major change in the
continent was Cuba's incorporation into the
Rio Group and the lifting of sanctions taken
by the OAS against the Caribbean Island in
1962, as a result of support from the
Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of
Our Americas (ALBA).
Marti thanked the Latin American and
Caribbean leftwing governments and forces
for their major role in the developments
related to his country.
He noted the participation of forces from
the Sao Paulo Forum in the international
campaign for the release of five Cuban
antiterrorists who are unjustly held in US
prisons.
The Cuban delegate stressed that following
the internationalist teachings of Fidel and
Raul Castro and Che Guevara, Cuba has
participated, participates and will
participate since its foundation in what he
called "our Sao Paulo Forum".
The PCC delegation to the 15th Sao Paulo
Forum also included Jose Antonio Arbesu,
head of the Americas Department, Pedro
Lobaina, an official in that department, and
Cuban Ambassador Cuba Manuel Aguilera, among
other members. |
