Mexico City, January 22nd - The Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, Eugenio Martínez, and the president of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Pedro Vázquez, reaffirmed today the historic ties of friendship between the two countries.
During a meeting at the legislative body, Vázquez recalled moments of the bilateral relationship, forged "in a shared cause," with references to Mexico's role in "providing refuge, strength, and horizons to the Cuban Revolution and the preparations for the freedom voyage of the yacht Granma."
He added that Cuba and Mexico recognize each other as brotherly peoples and that "there is no blockade, sanction, or external pressure that can break a brotherhood forged in dignity."
"Our friendship is not circumstantial. It is political, historical, and deeply human," he asserted.
According to a press release from the Embassy, Martínez referred, on his part, to the symbolism of holding the session in the Gilberto Bosques hall and expressed that it is also a concrete expression of the indestructible relationship between the two countries.
He recalled that without the support of Bosques and other Mexicans who played a key role in the effort to offer refuge, support, and affection to the Cuban revolutionaries, history might not have been the same and referred to the dangers and threats currently faced by the largest of the Antilles, our region, and the world.
He also alluded to the words of the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, who characterized this new stage as an "era of barbarism, neocolonialism, and fascism."
The diplomat called for unity and rallying together to save the dignity of Latin America and the Caribbean and recalled the glorious pages written by Mexico in this regard in recent times, in line with its Constitution and the principles of its foreign policy.
During the meeting, deputies Ana Corina Rojo, Maribel Martínez, Olga Lidia Herrera, María Isidra de la Luz, and Jorge Armando Ortiz also spoke, expressing their solidarity with the people of Cuba and their rejection of the "criminal and ominous" blockade imposed by the United States.
Phrases such as "to speak of Cuba is to speak of the fight for justice" were heard in the hall, and the commitment of the Labor Party caucus was reaffirmed to support the position of President Claudia Sheinbaum and the government in favor of fruitful, respectful, and strong relations with the island.
Three parliamentarians conveyed their condolences, sympathy, and admiration for the Cubans fallen in the face of the United States' aggression against Venezuela.
Deputy Ortiz stated that, together with the citizens of the island, they will celebrate Fidel's 100th anniversary next August 13 and expressed the desire to accompany and share the same fate as the people of the largest of the Antilles, because "solidarity is the tenderness of the peoples."
The Cuban ambassador thanked the expressions of solidarity and confirmed the willingness to continue strengthening the historic ties of friendship between the two countries.
