The organization highlighted its fraternal relationship with the Cuban

Friendship Institute (ICAP), an institution that has recognized, supported, and strengthened its solidarity work on behalf of Cuba.

  In this regard, it strongly condemned Washington’s decision to include ICAP and the company Amistur S.A. on a unilateral US sanctions list.

  According to the Collective, this action constitutes a new aggression against the people of the Caribbean nation and is part of the intensification of Washington’s economic, financial, and political war against Cuba.

  The organization added that the inclusion of ICAP on what it called the “infamous list” is intended to criminalize international solidarity and punish an institution that for more than six decades has contributed to bringing peoples closer together.

  It maintained that the true threat to peace and international coexistence is not solidarity, but the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States, a policy condemned year after year by the vast majority of the world’s nations.

  It called on labor, peasant, student, grassroots, cultural, feminist, indigenous, human rights, and leftist organizations in Mexico, Latin America, and around the world to speak out and mobilize against this new escalation against the island.

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