The 18th National Convention of Solidarity with Cuba took place in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil. More than 250 Brazilian professionals attended the event. The participants condemned the current western media campaign against Cuba and suggested actions aimed at discrediting such campaign.

During a discussion panel, psychologist Ruth Ignacio, as well as journalists Marco Weissheimer, Mario Jacobskind and Beto Almeida addressed some aspects about the fabrications by world right wing circles against the island.
Ignacio and Marco denounced the double standards of the anti-Cuba media campaign and said that US policy is  trying to counteract the development of  progressive countries in Latin America.

“The US and European oligarchies thought that the Cuban revolution would  decline first after the fall of  the former Soviet Union  (USSR), and later with the disease suffered by leader Fidel Castro. However,  socialism in Cuba is growing stronger every day and counts on the full support of the majority of the Cuban people,” Ignacio noted.

Journalist Weissheimer also denounced the press sponsored by US and European governments which only responds to the political and economic interests of international monopolies. He stressed that those newspapers continue to fostering the media campaign against Cuba, by selectively picking subjects like the freedom of expression and the respect of different ways of thinking, and at the same time they silence crucial social issues.

Jakboskind and Almeida agreed that the mass media in Brazil should cover more information for the audience to get a real background about what is happening in the country and the entire world by means of collaboration with TELESUR, a Venezuelan channel and with Prensa Latina news agency, in Cuba.

They added that the current campaign is only trying to cast a showdown on the genuine role of the Cuban revolution and its example of solidarity, which has already been proved by the collaboration of Cuban health professionals in the most remote regions of the world.

Other participants at the panel included Magali Llort, mother of one of the five Cubans unjustly incarcerated in the United States since 1998, historian Enrique Serra and justice promoter Gino Bastos. The meeting closed with the approval of the document titled “Letter of Poto Alegre”.

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