[WSF-Discuss] Third Americas Social Forum Rejects US-Cuba Blockade

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*Social Forum Rejects US-Cuba Blockade*

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Guatemala, Oct 10 (Prensa Latina) Participants in the Third Americas Social
Forum expressed Friday solidarity for recovery from damages caused by
hurricanes Gustav and Ike and demanded the United States lift the unfair
blockade of Cuba.

"Cuba, a country that has helped other nations, needs today all our
support," World Women's March activist Nalu Farias told Prensa Latina after
calling for a campaign in favor of the Caribbean island.

Farias recalled that the Revolution has accompanied other peoples even in
harsh moments of neoliberal hegemony, which touted the impossibility of
socialism.

Emeterio Toj Medrano, from the Wakib Quej indigenous coordinator, stated
that the Caribbean nation, despite the almost 50-year criminal economic,
trade and financial blockade, has been capable of delivering love and health
to several countries.

Toj Medrano talked of millions in losses the island is suffering after the
path of two meteorological events and the Cubans' heroism to face that
situation, proving the importance of unity to overcome the most difficult
adversities.

Participants in the forum collected signatures in solidarity with the island
and demanded that Washington end that aggressive policy.

The Americas Social Forum, taking place in the San Carlos University of
Guatemala, is dedicated today to Cuba, on the occasion of the 140th
anniversary of the beginning of the struggles for the independence of the
Spanish colonialism.

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