Uruguayan Senator Backs Cuba’s Decision on OAS Secretary General

Montevideo – Senator of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio), Leonardo de Leon, has said he fully supports Cuba’s decision to deny the entry visa into the Caribbean country of OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro.

In statements La Republica newspaper publishes today, the legislator affirmed that the worst thing he could have done is to have been linked to the ‘most recalcitrant and anti-democratic sectors of the anti-Cuba groups among the Cuban American community in Miami’.

‘Almagro should be ashamed of himself for that attitude,’ he said.

The senator commented that after reaching the full support of several Caribbean countries for their nomination to the regional body, from which Havana has not been a member since 1962, now he comes out to articulate with the worst anti-Cuban groups in Miami to produce political events in the Caribbean nation.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced on February 22th that Almagro intended to travel to the island to receive an award invented by an illegal anti-Cuban small group, which operates in conspiracy with the extreme rightwing Foundation for Pan-American Democracy.

He explained that the plot was intended to ‘set up in Havana an open and serious provocation against the Cuban government,’ generate internal instability, damage the international image of the country and, at the same time, affect the good progress of Cuba’s diplomatic relations with other States.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Almagro himself and some other right-wing members of the so-called Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas, responsible for having aggressively acted in recent years against Venezuela and other countries with progressive and left wing governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, would be use for that show.

As for Almagro and the OAS, the statements and openly anti-Cuban actions are not a surprise, said the statement, adding that in a very short time leading that organization, he has stood out for generating an ambitious self-promotion agenda with attacks also against the progressive governments of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.