BWI official condemn US blockade against Cuba

Ambet Yuson, General Secretary of the Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI), condemned in Havana the US blockade against Cuba and expressed his solidarity with the people of the island.

Upon addressing the gender event: 'Cuban women's emancipation of opportunities, inclusion and social justice ?,' the general secretary said that he came to Havana to express his commitment and solidarity with the National Union of Workers in the Construction and Similar Industries.

Yuson told exclusively Prensa Latina that the 15 million BWI members and its 380 unions in 130 countries fight and are in favor of ending the economic blockade imposed to Cuba by successive US administrations.

It meant that the members of the Building and Wood Workers' International are opposed to this economic war because it is 'violates human rights' and is 'against the workers' rights.'

Questioned on how this solidarity is currently expressed, the union leader said that they work with international bodies, the European Union, the United Nations and many regional structures to guarantee that Cuban workers are present in all those organizations.

Saul Mendez, president of the BWI Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean, said that from each organization of the construction and wood workers, its members reject the Washington blockade and harassment against the Cuban people.

Upon opening the event on Thursday, Carlos de Dios Oquendo, secretary general of the Construction Workers Union, denounced the increase in the economic war against Cuba with the tightening of the blockade through the activation of Title III of Helms-Burton Act.