OAS in Solidarity with Activists in a Hunger Strike in Cuba

Democratic Spaces welcomes this Press Release by OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro as media visibility is essential in the success of a hunger strike. Exposure is the most effective mechanism to generate pressure for o the dictatorship in Cuba.

Through media coverage, democratic governments can learn how an obsolete dictatorship is so fearful of independent initiatives to relief poverty in Cuba that it goes to such extremes as to prevent people in extreme poverty from reaching the main headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Cuba to obtain food, medications, medical attention, counselling and a dignified treatment. The Patriotic Union of Cuba stated a hunger strike to protest against such injustice.

As Luis Almagro stated “The Cuban dictatorship is an enormous burden on its people and should have been extinguished like other dictatorship of the sixties and seventies in the hemisphere.”