About 200 members of the civil society of our country, gathered in Havana to attend the second forum of the Cuban civil society Thinking Americas broke out into applause when the diplomat Juan Antonio Fernandez stopped the provocation of an anti-Cuban group in Lima, Peru.
About 200 members of the civil society of our country, gathered in Havana to attend the II Forum "Thinking Americas", broke out into applause when the diplomat Juan Antonio Fernandez faced the provocation of an anti-Cuban group in Lima, Peru.
" Quit Meddling in Cuba’s Business!," said the Cuban diplomat, speaking on the offensive words of Jorge Luis Vallejo, a member of the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy and representative of the 26th coalition to the Hemispheric Dialogue held yesterday in the Peruvian capital, prior to the celebration of the VIII Summit of the Americas.
The incidents of the event broadcasted live on television from the theater of Cuban Workers’ Federation (CTC), where the II Forum of Cuban civil society was simultaneously held.
The meeting in Lima consisted of an exchange between the representatives of the countries of the region and the members of the 28 thematic coalitions that will meet at the Forum of civil society on April 10 and 11 in Lima.
In his speech, Juan Antonio Fernández denounced the composition of the coalition 26, which includes among its coordinators "people and organizations of dubious development and with a political agenda of provocations and subversion".
The Latin American Youth Network for Democracy is a project funded by Washington that brings together members of the Cuban counterrevolution groups with a selection of the regional ultra-right, ready to participate in any aggression by the Organization of American States (OAS).
Vallejo, one of the network's executive directors, in his speech as a representative of coalition 26 tried to offend the Cuban island and recall the provocation recently occurred in Havana about awarding the prize to former presidents of the region, whose only merit was to attack the progressive governments of the area.
Then, in his official speech, Juan Antonio Fernández said that Cuba "deeply regrets and wishes to express its discomfort for the exclusion of the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela."
"Our America is mutilated without the presence of one of the countries of the continent that has contributed the most to the libertarian and integrationist ideal of Latin America and the Caribbean," he said.
From Havana it was monitored the words in Lima of Yamila González Ferrer, vice president of the Union of Jurists of Cuba, who represented the 15th coalition, whose theme is "For an inclusive and respectful world", and which brings together the majority of the Cuban delegation.
Translation. Liubis Balart