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Support for Cuba’s stand against repression pledged

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Reception to Ambassador in Jaipur

JAIPUR: Eminent persons from different walks of life expressed solidarity with the Cuban cause in fighting US imperialism during the visit of Cuba’s Ambassador to India, Miguel Angel Ramirez Ramos, to the Rajasthan capital. Mr. Ramos was accorded a reception at the Pink City Press Club in which speakers pledged their support to Cuba’s brave stand against repression.

Among those gathered to welcome Mr. Ramos were former Chief Minister Shiv Charan Mathur, former Rajasthan High Court judges Indrasen Israni and Panachand Jain, Congress MP Karan Singh Yadav who is also chairman of the Indo-Cuba Parliamentary Forum, former Rajasthan University Vice-Chancellor K.L. Kamal, well known scholar Hariram Acharya and Communist Party of India State secretary Dushyant Ojha. The reception was held under the auspices of the All India Peace and Solidarity Organization.

In his addres, Mr. Ramos said Latin America would give birth to many Vietnams in its fight against US hegemony. Despite the sanctions, which had so far cost Cuba 89 billion dollars in the past 50 years, his country was making a steady progress. “There are positive signals of an economic revival in the country,” he said.

“Cuba has done very well in education and health care. It does not have a single child not attending school,” he observed. “It is not Cuba alone in its fight against the US capitalism and globalization. The other Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua are there with us,” said Mr. Ramos, who was on his first visit here . “The possibilities of developing a better future are in sight for the Latin American countries,” he asserted. However, he said, the sanctions were taking a toll as children were dying after being denied certain cancer drugs exclusively manufactured in the US.

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