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Published: Tuesday, 26 March 2019 08:26

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Photo: GranmaHavana, March 26.- Salvador Valdés Mesa, first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, received on arrival in Namibia the welcome from Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of that country.

Both recalled the struggle against colonialism and the principle of self-determination of the peoples of the Third World, a feat in which Cuba had a leading role, leading numerous efforts to repay what was done by the African diaspora in the independence struggles of the Caribbean nation.

This is the third time that Valdés Mesa has visited Namibia and highlighted the good diplomatic and friendly atmosphere there. That southern country was under the domination of the racists of the south, until the advance of the combined Cuban and Angolan troops placed the Cape Town regime in a political predicament that forced it to request negotiations. At that time, that meant breaking the colonialist myth of the "invincibility of the white man."

Valdés Mesa arrived in Namibia after attending Cuito Cuanavale, in neighboring Angola, where presidents from all over the Southern African Cone were present, to pay tribute to the fallen combatants in the name of Human Rights. Upon his arrival in Namibia, the First Cuban Vice President reaffirms the will of the Caribbean nation to offer support to the oppressed peoples of the world, a principle that was present in the Martí and Fidelista ideas that guide the present.

Both Cuba and Namibia are two nations committed to sustaining the true history of the anti-racist struggle, since at the present time they wanted to distort that feat. "The truth must go beyond the borders and serve as an example to the generations of Cubans and those of the countries that gave their blood and their lives for freedom," said Valdés Mesa. (Granma)