A new song released Thursday with the title Puentes de Amor (Bridges of Love) calls for lifting the U.S. blockade against Cuba, a policy that promotes hatred and directly affects Cuban families.

The song is written and performed by Cuban-American professor Carlos Lazo, coordinator of the project that bears the same name of the musical creation, and by artist Chalu from Barcelona; although it also counts with the collaboration of Alex Pro, Dj Mr Ale and Saul.

According to Lazo, the lyrics came from their souls, and in it he explains through a rap his reasons to defend the Island by affirming that "the Homeland is the forging cradle of childhood".

In a little more than three minutes, the song speaks of the need for peace, of leaving hatred behind and asks for support to eliminate the sanctions that prevent Cubans from inside and outside the Caribbean nation from maintaining family ties.

The composition identifies the requests of the Bridges of Love project, which demands the reopening of the U.S. embassy in Havana, the resumption of the family reunification program and the reestablishment of remittances to the Antillean nation.

Likewise, among the demands are the end of travel restrictions to Cuba for Americans and that U.S. airlines may once again fly to all the provinces of the Caribbean country.

Those prohibitions issued during the administration of President Donald Trump, who tightened the blockade against the largest of the Antilles with 243 measures, are maintained during the current administration of Joe Biden, despite electoral promises to promote bilateral relations.

The Bridges of Love movement called for another world caravan on the 20th of this month, similar to those that took place last Sunday in some 70 cities around the world, where hundreds of people demanded Biden to lift the economic blockade.

Later, on the 23rd of this month, Cuba will present before the UN General Assembly the resolution that every year asks before the international community the end of the blockade; a vote postponed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Source: Prensa Latina