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The desire to learn from Cuba and to exchange with the people of Havana, Matanzas and Villa Clara are the motives of the members of the 38th South American Brigade of Solidarity with Cuba, who are staying from January 19 to 30 at the Julio Antonio Mela International Camp, Caimito, Artemisa.

With the particularity of paying tribute to the national hero, José Martí on his 170th birthday and participating in the 5th International Conference “For the Balance of the World”, which will be held from January 24 to 28 at the Havana Convention Center, 80 brigade members from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador, They will show their support for the revolution in different ways.

The famous interlocutor Thiago Avila, from Brazil, first told Granma in 2009: “We are living a new moment in Latin America, we have been able to defeat far-right governments at the polls. I return happy to see how this Caribbean island fares, even when it suffered from The ravages of the hurricane and other phenomena. I want that with solidarity, we can build together ways of goodness.

He recounted that the members of the brigade had the task of learning and maintaining a solidary stance of solidarity, fighting blockades and imperialism…and being able to build revolution in their country. He explained that Brazil is going through a period of struggle to defeat the subservient and dependent national oligarchy of the United States. “We have to explain that we are living in an important and decisive historical moment for the future of the planet,” he said.

And Melina Kouchner, from Argentina, who teaches at a high school in the Buenos Aires neighborhood, coincided with him. Here we will express our solidarity with the Cuban people, knowing that this revolutionary experience is our horizon. We want to know about the socialist state because it is the idea that we want to establish in the global system.

A similar opinion was expressed by retired Mauricio Mendoza Merlos, from El Salvador, and the Bolivian family consisting of Mauricio Oza Aramayo, Claudia Ibáñez Valenzuela, and children Camilo, Rodrigo and Facundo. They all hope to contribute, through their personal efforts, to the continuation of the Cuban Revolution in today’s globalized world.