Florence City Hall highlights on its official website that Resolution 338/2026, presented to that entity by the Common Left Project (SPC) political party, expresses solidarity with the Cuban people in the face of the growing threats they face from the US government.

SPC spokesperson, councilman Dmitrij Palagi, told reporters that this initiative reaffirms the majority stance of the authorities in Florence, the capital of the Tuscany region, against the increased pressure exerted on Cuba by the current administration of US President Donald Trump.

In that resolution, “the Italian government and the European Parliament are urged to act firmly against the unilateral measures affecting the Cuban civilian population.”

“This is a political act that continues a long history: that of Florence, an internationalist city, a city of peace, which acknowledges those who have extended a helping hand in the worst times,” noted Palagi, who remembered that “at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Cuba sent medical brigades to Italy.”

“Some 400 Cuban doctors are currently working in Calabria, ensuring the functioning of emergency rooms and intensive care units,” he emphasized, despite the United States’ efforts to end the presence of the Caribbean nation’s specialists in that southern Italian region.

The approval of this new motion in Florence follows similar actions in recent cities such as Turin and Cuneo, in the Piedmont region, as well as in Poggibonsi, Tuscany, and, more recently, in this capital, reaffirming support for the Cuban people in the face of the tightened US measures.

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