“It is not necessary to be a communist to defend the dignity of Cubans,” he affirmed, according to Cubainformación, referring to a debate held in Strasbourg, France.

In his speech, Barrena assured that the United States punishes a people that has decided “not to obey orders and to be the owner of its own destiny”.

A note about the session was highlighted the day before by Prensa Latina from France, referring to a debate promoted by sectors of the extreme right and the European right that seek to discredit the rapprochement of the European Union (EU) and Cuba initiated in 2016. Clearly, the idea of the European People’s Party and the far right was to try again to put the Caribbean island in the dock with the issue of human rights, something that several legislators rejected by pointing to the US blockade.

In the same line with Barrena’s reasoning, the former minister and now Podemos MEP, Irene Montero, and Ana Miranda (Bloque Nacionalista Gallego) spoke for Spain backing up Cuba’s right.

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