Cuban Union of Journalists denounces interference by the European Parliament and defends the existence of CELAC.

Without any morals to even give an opinion on Cuba, sectors of the extreme right within the European Parliament, with the marked objective of making noise and hindering the Cuban presence at the EU-CELAC Summit, have had an anti-Cuban resolution approved. The document is a dirty and rusty copy of others that have appeared every time European countries and Cuba have vowed for dialogue and the policy of non-interference.

The same people are back, ready to respond more to the orders of the United States than to those of the EU itself, which bases its relations with our country on political dialogue and collaboration.

The hackneyed topic of human rights – so systematically violated in many European countries – is once again being used by those who should be more concerned about what happened to the demonstrators who peacefully took to the streets of France to protest the death of a young man by the French police.

And, although they do not deserve the slightest explanation, it would be a good idea for the European Parliament to suggest to these gentlemen that they look into the policies used against immigrants, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, those who have died by the thousands in the attempt to arrive by sea, in fragile boats, to rich countries that plundered their occupied nations and turned them into colonies.

It would be, at least, to act with a minimum of dignity, if those same representatives of the European right would condemn the presence these days of a U.S. nuclear submarine in the illegal naval base of Guantanamo, converted in recent years into a center of confinement and torture for those who were considered, by their physique, as Muslims linked to acts of terror and crime.

It is also shameful that those who claim to act in the name of democracy try to torpedo an event such as the Celac-EU Summit which, at least for Latin American nations, would be an important moment to talk about collaboration, non-interference, actions in favor of saving the planet from the harmful effects of climate change, among others.

The Union of Journalists of Cuba, as part of Cuban civil society, denounces this type of interference by the European Parliament and defends the existence of CELAC as part of the much needed process of Latin American integration.

We condemn with all our strength that extreme right-wing political groups are trying to turn the aforementioned Summit into a miserable circus, with room for sick clowns, incapable of acting in favor of dialogue, collaboration and solidarity between inhabitants of two regions closely linked by culture, language and history.

Union of Cuban Journalists

July 12th, 2023