The Uruguayan legislator referred to the latest tightening of the US blockade against the Caribbean island, which seeks to deny it fuel supplies and, incidentally, punish companies and countries.

“We want to push our left-wing government to deepen ties of international solidarity with Cuba in the face of this situation,” he said.

More than threatening US national security, what Cuba has done is “spread solidarity across the globe,” he pointed out.

He noted that nearly 120,000 of his compatriots “have regained their sight, their lives, and the lives of their grandchildren thanks to the work of Cuban ophthalmologists.”

This was in reference to the Cuban medical cooperation that has been providing services to all of Uruguay for 18 years from the José Marti Eye Hospital.

He noted that the Fidel Castro Brigade, composed of Uruguayans and carrying out a solidarity program on the Caribbean island, “is sharing this period of danger and need that the Cuban people are facing.” “They represent our ideology that whoever attacks one of our nations attacks us all,” he concluded.

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