Perez made this remark during a discussion held in La Paz, department of Canelones, organized by the movement of solidarity with the Caribbean island.

The diplomat said, “Today we speak of Fidel, the Commander who turns 100 years old, whose image, gigantic and defiant, covered entire squares and avenues in Montevideo, Paysandu, Salto, and across Uruguay.”

The ambassador noted that the repeated appearance of Fidel Castro on Uruguayan streets has a history of brotherhood between the two countries and “a sacred name: Jose Marti.”

She added, “The National Hero who represented Uruguay as a consul because he knew he was a son of America and owed his allegiance to it, and thus left his fiery words in the newsrooms and sowed the seeds of Latin American unity that today, more than ever, calls upon us.”

Perez underscored that Marti was the one who foresaw the imperial ambition to expand over our lands in America.

She evoked the Uruguayans who took part in the war for the island’s independence, and those who stood by them through the most complex moments of the beginning of the revolution in her country.

The ambassador mentioned the achievements and transformations of the Cuban revolutionary process, even though “the United States deployed from day one its arsenal of evil against us.”

Perez also referred to the “US economic, genocidal, and criminal blockade, which has been stifling our economy for more than six decades.”

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