HAVNA, Cuba. An extensive campaign to promote solidarity with Cuba is underway in the United Kingdom to "show that British and Cuban peoples have a lot in common," said campaign director Rob Miller.
In an interview with Juventud Rebelde newspaper, Miller said the campaign seeks to promote positive change in the UK government's policy towards Cuba.
He said they want to encourage people to travel to Cuba to meet with the Cuban people and witness firsthand the reality of a country that lives with daily hardships due to the US blockade. Then, when they return to the UK, to tell their government about their experiences in order to
foster understanding and the realization that the British and Cuban people have a lot in common.
Miller also spoke about the need to work hard with British members of parliament and unions to urge the government to adopt a positive stance.
As part of the campaign, organizers have sent a postcard to British Foreign Minister David Miliband with an enticing landscape of a Cuban beach; the question, "Would you like to be here?;" and an invitation for him to visit the Caribbean island to show that the British government is genuinely interested in developing relations with Cuba.
Miller explained that the postcard sent to Miliband came after recent government statements that it will not send ministers to visit Cuba unless to meet with counterrevolutionaries.
Rob Millar also asked that if Spanish, Irish and representatives of many countries, including from the EU, travel to Cuba, why does the British government insist on maintaining George W. Bush's failed policy against the island.
He also noted that some 200,000 British travellers take their holidays in Cuba every year, bringing back favourable impressions of the island and, particularly, of its people.
(Impulsan en Reino Unido campaña de solidaridad con Cuba)
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