The text signed by Juan Carlos Blanco Sommaruga states that the administration of President Yamandu Orsi refuses to “take a clear and firm position regarding one of the most persistent injustices of our time.”

“Uruguay, a country with a long tradition of Latin American solidarity and defense of international law, seems to be looking the other way today when it comes to condemning a blockade that suffocates eleven million Cubans, preventing them from accessing essential resources, medicine, food, and fuel,” he adds.

Not a single forceful statement, not a word of condemnation, not a single gesture of public support for the island that has so often reached out to the peoples of the continent, Sommaruga notes.

He points out that the social and political organizations that make up the Cuba solidarity movement in Uruguay have expressed their deep concern over this official silence, interpreted as a moral renunciation of the historic principles of Uruguayan foreign policy.

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