The IX Continental Solidarity Meeting with Cuba will begin today in Mexico, with the attendance of more than 250 delegates from 27 Latin American nations and Spain, Lebanon, and the United States.

According to the programme, the inauguration will take place in the late afternoon-evening at the National Arts Centre in the capital.

The four-day meeting will include conferences and working tables with topics such as strengthening the solidarity movement with Cuba, the struggle against the blockade, and the demand to exclude the island from the United States’ unilateral list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism.

It will also address the strengthening of solidarity in the economic sphere, Latin American and Caribbean coordination and integration, the challenges in the face of disinformation campaigns and the media war against the largest of the Antilles.

In a conversation with Prensa Latina, Aline Pérez, from the Mexican Solidarity Movement with Cuba, expressed the significance of the Meeting at a time marked by the intensification of the economic, commercial, and financial siege imposed by Washington on the island.

In her opinion, it is essential that solidarity movements on the continent carry out the tasks in support of the Cuban Revolution in a more organised, thoughtful, articulated, and intelligent manner, to break the blockade and counter the media siege.

«Cuba is our beacon and this event will also serve to show them that they are not alone. Let it also be a way to thank them for everything they offer the world,» she said, also highlighting the relevance of having representatives from the Antillean nation present.

Pérez considered it important to hear updates directly from the delegation of the Caribbean country present at the meeting on topics such as the effects of the blockade, the role of youth in the continuity of the Revolution, and the challenges of the media war.

This, she added, «will reinforce our knowledge to propose plans of action in the different working tables.»

According to what has been announced, among the attendees at the event will be the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Fernando González, and the deputy general director of the United States Directorate in the island’s Foreign Ministry, Johana Tablada.

Also, the Brazilian theologian Frei Betto; the five-time Olympic champion Mijaín López, and the Haitian economist Camille Chalmers, among others.