This is an absolute proof of the capacity the of historical and cultural links between the peoples of Cuba and the United States to avoid the hostile economic restrictions imposed by the North-American country for more than five decades to Cuba. This was confirmed this May 25th through a videoconference done by the Government of Havana and the New Orleans City Council.

It was presided from Cuba side by the Vice-Governor of Havana, Yanet Hernández Pérez. The virtual encounter allows the continuity of a memorandum of understanding signed between both cities in November, 2019, as part of the festivities for the 500 years of the foundation of the Town of San Cristóbal.

On the American side, there was Mayor LaToya Cantrell, accompanied by Jennifer Avegno, Director of the New Orleans’s Health Department; Rosine Pemasanga, Director International Relations of the City Council; and Arthur C. Walton, its Director of Intergovernmental Relations.

The meeting served as a framework for debating about the recent experiences in facing the COVID-19 in the island and the cultural links between both nations, being appreciable in events like the International Book Fair, the traditional Carnival of Havana, or the Jazz Plaza Festival, all of them in tune with the still-active designation of Havana as the Creative City of Music by the UNESCO.

Hernández Pérez appreciated this productive and beneficial encounter for both sides:

“The topics dealt with were decisive for the concretion and continuity of the agreements that were accepted, having as a basis the relations that unite us”, she stated.   

The representatives of the Caribbean capital agreed. These were: Luis Carlos Góngora Domínguez, General Director of Foreign Commerce and International Relations of the Provincial Government; Félix Mejías, its Director of International Relation; as well as representatives of the Ministries of Public Health and Culture in this territory. Along with these efforts, we can add those of several personalities, governments, organizations, and even cities that ask for the end of than unilateral and unfair measure that limits the development of the Cuban nation.

Taken from Tribuna La Habana