Those solidarity groups also reaffirmed on Thursday evening their commitment to peace in the Americas.

“The political-military actions we have just witnessed in Venezuela, based on cyber and technological air and space warfare, as well as the threats of the application throughout our America of the Monroe Doctrine being developed by President Donald Trump and the clique that currently governs the United States, openly represent a threat to all of humanity.”

Activist Maria de la Paz Quintanilla stated, “They also generate destabilization, death, destruction, looting, theft, and exploitation of the natural and economic resources of the world’s peoples.”

De la Paz Quintanilla, a member of the Marti Alternative for Our America (Mexico chapter) and the Mexican solidarity movement with Cuba in Monterrey, denounced at the event held in the Plaza del Colegio Civil in Monterrey the hegemonic power for “opening war fronts around the world and deepening genocide in an attempt to solve the crisis of the capitalist system.”

Ernesto Villareal Landeros, representative of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers for the state of Nuevo Leon, told Prensa Latina that “Latin Americans have the need and the obligation to study the historically interventionist role of the United States, trampling on the dignity and development of our peoples, at the mercy of the exploitation of their natural resources.”

Representatives of the Monterrey-based “People to People” Brigade, a solidarity group with Cuba, among other speakers, also addressed the gathering.

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