Workers from Over 70 Countries Celebrate May Day with Cuba

[Mika]

Workers from Over 70 Countries Celebrate May Day with Cuba
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Havana, May 1 (Prensa Latina) While in Geneva Cuba shows today its achievements in human rights at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), more than 2, 200 representatives from 73 countries celebrate together with the people of the island the International Workers'' Day.

According to several foreign delegates consulted by Prensa Latina, their participation in Cuban parades on May Day responds to the satisfaction of sharing with a working class that today has many reasons to celebrate and not to protest, as occur in other parts of the world.

Rui Falcao, president of the Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil, said he has high expectations for his attendance in the march at the Havana's Revolution Square. Meanwhile, Colombian Senator Graciela Ramirez said she was excited because this is the first time she joins to the Cuban parade. For Ronny Corvo, member of the Broad Front of Uruguay, to live a May Day in Cuba, "in a socialist revolution that is the idea that we all have" is an honor.

Precisely to strengthen ties between nations, many of the foreign representatives will participate on May 2 in a traditional International Meeting of Solidarity, organized by the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC), and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples.

[idwiyo]

1. K&R

[Mika]

2. May Day rally

[dipsydoodle]

3. Great picture.

Thanks for posting.

[Catherina]

4. Gorgeous picture! n/t

[Judi Lynn]

7. Beautiful! Thanks for the great image, Mika. Tremendous unity.

Great to see these real Cubans.

[Mika]

5. another

[Mika]

6. more

[Judi Lynn]

8. Google translation regarding Eduardo García Delgado's story:

Allegiance written in blood

By Cira Rodriguez Cesar The testimony of courage and fidelity of the young Eduardo Garcia Delgado was one of the most impressive legacies of victory against the mercenary attack in April 1961, started the 15th with the bombs dropped on Liberty City in the capital Cuban. His life was cut short with the deadly cargo released B-26 devices with identifications of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, but just at the moment that ended his short 26 years he wrote with his blood FIDEL immense passion patriotic and revolutionary. When U.S. planes bombed air bases Ciudad Libertad and San Antonio de los Baños, Havana, and Antonio Maceo Airport in Santiago de Cuba, the young striker was available immediately to defend the sovereignty and integrity of the soil. He took his last breath forces with his own blood to translate their test undying loyalty and devotion to a cause, that opened the possibilities for advancement and personal fulfillment. Born October 13, 1935, in Cienfuegos, Eduardo was a graduate of Secondary School in his hometown, where he grew up amid riots against the then dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, until he moved to the capital of the country for use in various tasks. Upon the triumph of the first of January 1959 he joined with all their enthusiasm to the revolutionary ferment, particularly the National Revolutionary Militias within which was formed as a gunner. By "girlfriend", as he called the Revolution, stated to be always ready to give his life. way, Eduardo García Delgado and his heroic gesture joined the list of two thousand 354 Cubans killed as a result of aggressive policy stubborn that since 1959, the United States maintains against the Cuban Revolution. From this hostility out the purpose of destroying the few combat teams that had Cuba, prior to the Bay of Pigs mercenary invasion to curtail the freedom gained by the rebel army with the people. The next day, April 16, the people went to bury their dead among patriotic slogans. During the farewell of mourning, Fidel Castro proclaimed the socialist character of the Revolution, while 17 began the invasion of the Bay of Pigs CIA. Only 66 hours were enough to crush the invading brigade, in which the 19 was released the area attacked by the rapid and decisive attitude of young people like Eduardo Garcia Delgado, who became a symbol of loyalty to their homeland. while novice soldiers mobilized to defend the nation, the gesture increased the combat readiness of the defense forces on the sands of Giron, who ended operation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) called Pluto. Their attitude shocked the country and thousands of men and women around the world and hatred amplified House representatives White and Cuban-American mafia in Miami. since then was a cause and incentive for other battles that Cubans face in his long confrontation with the hostility of the United States, and although it was an image that exceeded the limits of the verse's national poet Nicolas Guillen wrote the poem Numerous Blood.

http://www.prensa-latina.cu/Dossiers/Giron50/EduardoGarcia.html

Thanks for these images of Cubans, scared to death, deeply depressed, worried sick about being shot, or tortured there in that terrifying police state! Clearly they are nervous wrecks, Mika!

Must I add:

[ocpagu]

9. Wow, wonderful pictures Mika.

So glad you shared this info with us. Thanks a lot.