In an event honoring the Caribbean nation’s national hero, Jose Marti, on the occasion of the 173rd anniversary of his birth on January 28, they stated that such actions violate the principles of international law and threaten the well-being of millions of people.

Auch actions also directly affect their daily lives and their legitimate aspirations for development and peace, added a statement read by Sol Elena Rodriguez, a director of the National Association of Cubans Residing in Brazil (Ancreb).

This group organized a tribute held in Buriti Square in Brasilia, which was also attended by diplomats from the Cuban Embassy, ​​Venezuelan Freddy Meregote, and Brazilians who are friends of the Caribbean nation.

At the tribute, during which the Association laid a floral offering before a bust of Marti, Rodriguez rembered that this hero was the intellectual architect of Cuban independence, a humanist with a universal vocation, and an uncompromising defender of the full dignity of humankind.

His early warning about the dangers of expansionism and foreign domination reaches renewed relevance today in the face of the current threats, pressures, and hostile rhetoric of US President Donald Trump against Cuba and its people, he emphasized.

In statements to Prensa Latina, Alexis Isaac Hierrezuelo, coordinator of the Association in Brasilia, stressed that Marti’s ideals are present in every worthy Cuban and in Latin American thought, “because we are one, from Rio Grande to Patagonia.”

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