00:02Hello Luis, I am reporting right now from the Maguro Yard here in the Port of Progreso in
00:08Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. In a couple of hours this ship will be departing to La Habana. This
00:15is part of the Convoy Nuestra America. I am joined here with Tiago Avila who was part of the
00:21coordination of this flotilla. Tiago was also part of the global summit with Palestine and well let
00:28me ask you Tiago how are the preparation for this flotilla, how are you part also of this
00:33global international solidarity effort to Cuba?
00:37Thank you Gerardo and thank you Telesur for covering once again an important moment of
00:41solidarity, international solidarity. The idea of the Nuestra América Convoi is to take dozens
00:46of tons of aid to Cuba, food, medicine, solar panels and other things that we believe it's
00:53important for the Cuban people to go through this moment of imperialist aggression. What
00:58is happening between the United States and Donald Trump's orders against Cuba is nothing other
01:04than a war crime. International law forbids another country to put another country under
01:09blockade and forbids another country to threaten civilian infrastructure and to threaten to take
01:14over power and to intervene in other countries. Therefore we are moving there to say that Cuba is
01:22not invisible to the world, that Cuba is not alone, that we would not stay silent while there's
01:28aggressions happening against Cuba, against Colombia, against Palestine, against Lebanon, against
01:32Iran and all the other countries. Then to say that solidarity will never be subject to blockades.
01:37We are here to say that whenever we bring aid, we not only bring aid but we bring the ideas
01:44of the most solidarity country in the world. Cuba has always been the country that send doctors' brigades
01:50everywhere else, that treated Chernobyl accident children, that send people to fight the apartheid
01:55troops in South Africa. So we are here in solidarity and to retribute to this country that's shown
02:00so much love and kindness to the world. People from all around the world, through the skies,
02:06through the sea, are going to Cuba. Why is it so important to be part of this combo in
02:10North America?
02:11Well, we understand that this is a decisive moment, not only for Cuba, but we see that whenever
02:17imperialism and Zionism do not face a strong opposition, strong resistance, they spread elsewhere.
02:24So whoever is at home needs to understand that eventually the same threats, the same aggression,
02:30the same destructive behavior is coming to every country. The idea of moral doctrine 2.0 is to
02:36recolonize Latin America as a whole and to impose this decaying empire to the entire planet to allow
02:44Donald Trump to prolong this idea of U.S. hegemony all over the world. We cannot allow that.
02:50So it's important for everybody to mobilize and for us it's important to do this in a solidarity
02:55way. So by boats, we are taking three boats there to Cuba by plane. There's a charter plane that's
03:00already arrived in Cuba and thousands of people are arriving, bringing aid in their suitcases, like
03:05we do in every brigade, in every caravan solidarity with Cuba, historically as well. In any way
03:11we can, we need to support the people of Cuba right now under severe attack. The blockade,
03:16the executive order to block all oil exports to Cuba, all the restrictive measures, the attempt
03:23to put Cuba on the list of nations that supposedly would support terrorism, all of these violations
03:29of a six-decade blockade need to stop against Cuba. And Cuba needs to have, like all the people
03:35in the world, the right to live in peace, the right of their sovereignty and self-determination.
03:39Thank you very much, Tiago. The coast of Mexico six decades ago brought Cuba its revolution.
03:46Now it brings Cuba solidarity. Luis, if you have another question here and then, if not, we'll go back
03:51to you to the studio.
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