A resolution responds to the call made by the Pasos de Cambio organizations given the failed state conditions imposed by the communist regime in Cuba.
Sent by Pasos de Cambio
Madrid, December 3, 2024.- The People’s Party Parliamentary Group in the Congress of Deputies of Spain has registered an initiative aimed at requesting the Spanish Government to take the necessary actions to suspend the so-called Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement with Cuba (ACPC). The resolution takes up the call made by the Cuban opposition organizations participating in the Pasos de Cambio platform in October 2024 in the face of the deep humanitarian crisis and political repression unleashed by the leaders on the Island.
The proposal, signed by ten deputies and processed as a Non-Binding Motion (PNL) addressed to the Government, has been registered in the Joint Committee for the European Union and is expected to be debated on December 9th.
The PNL states that “in recent months, the economic crisis has worsened with constant power outages, affecting most of the island and adding a new element of desperation to the Cuban people.” The initiative alludes to the energy crisis that left millions of Cubans “without access to electricity, drinking water, internet or transportation.” But it emphasizes that “this is not an isolated event, but the direct consequence of decades of communism and the immobility of a regime that does not guarantee the basic rights of the population.” It also refers to the Cuban exodus, which it qualifies as “historic,” and to a thousand political prisoners.
“It is time to listen to Cuban civil society,” states the text of the initiative, and then echoes the Declaration promoted by Pasos de Cambio on October 25th, signed by twenty representatives of Cuban civil society, which warned that “Cuba is living in conditions of a failed state” and calls on “democratic governments to stop all forms of financing the repressive apparatus in Cuba, to pressure the dictators to submit to the will of the citizens for democratic change.”
As requested in its proposals to Europe by the participants in Pasosdecambio.com, this PNL concludes by requesting the Government to suspend the ADPC through “the activation of article 85, paragraph 3, letter b) of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement with Cuba, until the country offers guarantees of progress in respect for human rights.”
In line with the Pasos de Cambio proposal, the PNL also requests the Government to condemn the growing violations of human rights, the immediate release of political prisoners, the monitoring of the number of prisoners with Spanish nationality and the request for information on the actions in favor of democracy and human rights by the embassies.
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