Martinez participated in the working group “Havana, Cuba and Mexico City: 29 Years of Brotherhood and Deep Historical Ties,” convened by the International Affairs Committee of the Mexico City Congress to commemorate the 29th anniversary of relations between the two capitals.

Representative Ana Luisa Buendia emphasized that the ties between the two countries are based on friendship and shared principles, and that both sister nations share a sense of justice.

Ernesto Villarreal, coordinator of the Labor Party’s parliamentary group, mentioned the importance of the Cuban Revolution’s triumph for the independence of Latin America and the Caribbean, and stated that for Cuba, sovereignty and social justice are not concessions, but rather achievements.

For his part, Pablo Trejo, from the parliamentary group of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, described the friendship between Mexico and Cuba as historic, echoing Benito Juarez’s statement, “Respect for the rights of others is peace.”

The president of the International Affairs Committee of the Mexico City Congress, Diana Barragan, maintained that Cuba and Mexico share a history of resistance, dignity, and struggle, and defined the bonds of friendship between the two peoples as unbreakable.

She characterized the escalation of aggression by the United States government against the population of the Caribbean nation as sinister and unjustifiable, and therefore affirmed that “Mexico stands in solidarity with Cuba in celebration and in struggle.”

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