CAMAGÜEY.- The new measures of the administration of US President Donald Trump on June 4 to stifle the Cuban economy, as well as the activation of Title III of the perfidious Helms-Burton Act in May, continue to be rejected by all people of Camagüey, in the province with the greatest territorial extension of Cuba.

At 76 kilometers from the provincial capital, in the municipality of Guáimaro, the most eastern of Camagüey, the trade union movement has condemned these interfering regulations, which are nothing more than the expression of the resurgence of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the government of the United States against Cuba. According to local workers, this policy constitutes a violation of human rights and the main obstacle to the development of the Island.

The municipal secretariat of the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba (CTC) affirmed that the workers, peasants and intellectuals will continue forward in the search for solutions in the face of economic difficulties, "until turning each center and job position into an impregnable bastion, even in the most adverse conditions.”

Members of political and mass organizations in that same territory, such as Darlenis Área Peña, a militant of the Youth Communist League (UJC), told reporters of the municipal radio station of Guáimaro that with the arrival of President Donald Trump, the United States resumed the a strategy of intensifying the blockade and increasing subversion against Cuba, which shows the hostility of its policy.

Also young people from Nuevitas, a northern municipality located 80 kilometers from the provincial capital, have expressed their rejection of what they consider are "provocations, which will not obtain the Machiavellian objective that they propose". As faithful followers of the historical legacy of the Cuban Revolution, the students of the branch in Nuevitas of the Carlos J. Finlay University of Medical Sciences show their rejection of the new measure to intensify the blockade of the island.

Among the various activities organized by the Federation of University Students (FEU), which have taken place here, are the performance of special morning meetings, volunteer work in centers of economic or social importance, sports activities, lectures and debates among students of different years and specialties, assured Yoilán Reyes, municipal president of the FEU.

On the other hand, Maylevis Alonso Águila, Methodologist of Educational Work and University Extension of the Nuevitas’s branch of the Camagüey Center for Higher Studies of Medical Sciences, explained to local radio station Radio Nuevitas that the spaces of reflection and debate have become, among others , in ideal places to publicize the consequences that the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Law would have, not only for the Cuban people, but also at an international level.

The professors of History of Cuba explain to future doctors, nurses and health technicians, what was the reason for the nationalizations at the beginning of the Revolution and how that process was developed, so that students can explain this to any person who don’t know or have doubts about it.

According to the investigations, the damages accumulated by the blockade during almost six decades of application exceed 900 billion dollars, taking into account the depreciation of the dollar against the value of gold in the international market.

Since May 2, the day on which US President Donald Trump activated Title III of the "Helms-Burton," the Revolutionary Government and most of its citizens have vigorously rejected that violation of international law and the welfare of the Cuban people.

Now, with the new measures of the US administration that further restrict the trips of the Americans to the island, Camagüey´s women and men continue to show their support for the independence and sovereignty of their Homeland.

Translated by Luis David Vazquez. English Language Student.