Members of the organization delivered a document to the Dominican Foreign Ministry—addressed to President Luis Abinader—expressing their opposition to the measure and defending the actions of the island’s representatives, arguing that the Cuban officials had not committed any of the violations cited under the Vienna Convention.
The coordinating group described the decision as “absurd and unjustified,” maintaining that by taking this step, local authorities were “following a line of hostility toward Cuba dictated by the United States government.”
The letter notes that Washington, through the economic blockade it has maintained against the nation for over six decades, “seeks to isolate Cuba to the point of suffocation”—a course of action that, the group argued, no country believing in respect for the autonomy and sovereignty of peoples should support.
In the letter addressed to the president, the organizations reminded him that the Dominican Republic should not join the “concert led by the United States and the so-called ‘Shield of the Americas’ nations, which seek to defeat the economic, political, and social system chosen by the Cuban people.”
The letter was signed by the Dominican Campaign of Solidarity with Cuba, the National Peasant Articulation, the United Communities Peasant Movement, the Solidarity Committee in Defense of the Sovereignty of Peoples in Struggle, *Patria para Todos* (Homeland for All), the Dominican Popular Movement, the Rebel Movement, and the Broad Front (*Frente Amplio*).
The document was also endorsed by the Confederation of Rural Women, the Caribbean Peoples’ Assembly (Dominican Chapter), ALBA Movements, the Alliance for Democracy, the *Fuerza Boschista*, the Human Rights Commission, the Caamano Foundation, the People’s Power Party, and the United Left Movement.
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