HAVANA.- Cuba raised its voice along with Venezuela to support it, to support Latin America and the Palestinian people, and all the just causes of the world, said President Miguel Diaz-Canel in New York city.

Diaz-Canel, who on Wednesday night attended an activity of solidarity with his country in the Riverside Church, in the United States city of New York, expressed the satisfaction that, after a hard day of work at the UN, both the Cuban delegation and the Venezuelan delegation felt at being in an encounter with friends.

Miracles like that only happen in this church, that is why we thank you very much for this meeting of solidarity, and because here we don't need to talk about names or positions, here we are all sisters and brothers, he emphasized in the event in which his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, also participated.

Cuba is not a big or powerful country, nor rich in natural or financial resources. But those limitations have not prevented us from practicing solidarity, on the basis of sharing, not what we have left over, but what we have, and above all, sharing our effort and our sacrifice, he stressed.

According to Díaz-Canel, it is a solidarity sacrifice, practiced with humility and that has had an impact, after several decades, on the lives of millions of people on several continents.

Today, the most visible expression of that solidarity is the cooperation provided by more than 42,000 Cuban professionals, especially medical personnel, in some 75 countries, the head of state added, referring to the work of those people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

He maintained that the most significant effort of this internationalist solidarity of the Cuban Revolution, for its prolongation in time, for its dimension in human resources, and for its material cost and in lives, was the support to the liberation movements in Africa.

That is why, when Cuba comes to the UN General Assembly and promotes cooperation and solidarity, in the face of threat, competition, racism and selfishness, it does so with the authority of a people who demonstrated that such purposes are possible, and who turned declarations into concrete actions,' he said.

Addressing some two thousand people who applauded them standing up and shouted "Cuba yes, blockade no!", Diaz-Canel also said hat the Riverside church could be considered the birthplace of the training program for young Americans from the most humble districts of the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba.
Precisely some of the nearly 200 U.S. graduates from that center of higher learning were present at the event dedicated to Cuba.