• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 10 / 19 / 2010

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2010.10.18 - 16:07:18 / [email protected]. Havana, Cuba.- Some 15 associations gathered in the southern Spanish city of Cordoba asked Washington to lift the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba and release the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in the US since 1998.

Both demands were included in the final resolution of the 5th Andalusian Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba that took place over the weekend, reported the Trabajadores weekly newspaper.

The document accuses Barack Obama’s administration of implementing the same aggressive policy against Cuba used by former governments by financing mercenaries inside and outside of the island and protecting self-confessed terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles.

Likewise, the Andalusian organizations asked the Spanish government to promote the abolition of the European Union’s Common Position which was passed in 1996 by then Iberian executive Jose Maria Aznar, as it does not represent the feelings of the European peoples.

The Cuban supporters said the Common Position was approved under the pressure of the United States and that it brought to light the subordination of the country’s foreign policy to Washington.

In addition, the solidarity-with-Cuba movement slammed the media campaign unleashed by Europe against the island based on hiding information and repeating slanders so that the public opinion finally believe them.

Meanwhile, in Latin America participants in the 5th Congress of the regional Coordinating Committee of Country Organizations in Quito, Ecuador, reaffirmed their permanent solidarity with Cuba and condemned the US blockade against the island and demanded Washington to release the five Cuban antiterrorists imprisoned in the US.

Source: ACN