This was stated to Prensa Latina by the president of the Cuban Friendship Institute, Fernando Gonzalez, when referring to the sessions of the IX Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, which begin this Thursday and will end next Sunday.

“We will seek to debate how to be more effective in our communications efforts at a time when Cuba is not only facing a brutal intensification of the economic siege,” said the Hero of the Republic.

He mentioned that this reality is combined with a communications campaign to make the island’s people, which is the main objective, but also many around the world believe that the situation in the Caribbean nation is due to alleged inefficiency in the government’s management.

“These are two lines that feed off each other: economic suffocation and the communications campaign. How the solidarity movement with Cuba can be more effective in countering these campaigns” and the campaign against medical collaboration will be topics to be discussed at the event, he added.

He highlighted the meeting as a space to draw up lines of work for the future, in terms of ways to better unify the work of solidarity organizations in defending Cuba’s right to be free, sovereign, and independent, and in the fight against the blockade imposed by the United States.

He also highlighted the demand to remove the island from Washington’s unilateral list of states that allegedly sponsor terrorism.

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