Tens of activists from trade unions, political groups and delegates of organizations from several Latin American countries, who were taking part in the FAO consultation on land grabbing that is taking place in the capital, surrounded the embassy.

A group of Cuban exiles had announced a “demonstration” to reject the Havana administration, although it ended up having a very poor turnout: just three demonstrators carrying expensive banners, who were not even able to go close to the embassy as a result of the booing and repudiation of over a hundred Cuba supporters.

From the vehicle with CUT and Via Campesina stickers, several people mentioned the links of the Latin American peoples with Cuba and its socialist project, and they repudiated the media campaign that seeks to blame the government for purported “hunger strikes”.

The counterrevolutionaries failed to go through the barrier of Cuban flags, images of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, banners demanding the end of the embargo and the release of the five prisoners jailed in the US, and decided to leave.

After that, the Cuban ambassador to Brazil, Carlos Samora, received the solidary demonstrators in the embassy’s garden, which included activists such as high-school students, families from settlements of the Rural Landless Workers’ Movement of Brazil from the outskirts of the city.

Photo: Real World Radio