“He has been a leftist icon for many years. He is a symbol of the socialist revolution in Latin America,” emphasized the deputy coordinator of the parliamentary group of the ruling Morena party in the Chamber of Deputies.

  In her opinion, people like Raul Castro have managed, through their principles, resistance, and courage, to overcome adversity and show that the people’s will is more powerful than that of a few mercenaries.

  She expressed her deep concern about “the threat against Raul made by a mercenary who, moreover, speaks to the Cuban people as if they were not the same people he is strangling, drowning, and suffocating every day.”

  Padierna’s comments came during a meeting between members of the Mexico-Cuba Brotherhood Group and two Cuban deputies: Noemi Rabaza, First Vice President of the Cuban Friendship Institute, and historian Katiuska Blanco, as well as members of the Embassy.

  Last Wednesday, the Cuban government repudiated the U.S. Department of Justice’s indictment against Raul Castro.

  In a statement, it asserted that the U.S. administration “lacks legitimacy and jurisdiction to carry out this action” and called the indictment “a despicable and infamous act of political provocation,” based on the manipulation of an incident from February 1996.

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