Guantanamo’s citizens, representing the nation’s inhabitants, will gather at the Mariana Grajales Revolution Square to demonstrate their will to defend unity, peace, and national sovereignty.

Likewise, they will reaffirm the anti-imperialist character of the Revolution and repudiate the use of the US naval base in that province to confine migrants expelled from the US territory.

Summoned by the Cuban Workers Union (CTC), the participants will denounce Washington’s decision to transfer 30,000 people considered criminals to a Cuban jurisdiction, which could generate a scenario of risk and insecurity.

According to what was recently declared by the general secretary of the CTC in Guantánamo, Juana Eglis Fernández, the inhabitants will also demand the return of the territory illegally occupied by the US naval base, whose cession was signed 122 years ago under the Platt Amendment.

Cubans reject this occupation and reaffirm their commitment to national sovereignty, she said in declarations to the Guantanamo press media. Fernandez said that the mobilization is attended by workers of the 15 unions of the province, students, members of several non-governmental organizations, and representatives of the municipalities of Caimanera, El Salvador, and Manuel Tames.

He explained that all participants would wear the colors of the national flag (white, blue, and red). He also assured that they will request the exclusion of Cuba from the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism, unilaterally drawn up by the White House.

Like all the Cubans, he commented, we the people of Guantanamo will always raise our voices to denounce the U.S. economic blockade, the more than 240 intensified measures, and all actions against our rights.

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