{"id":236783,"date":"2021-03-29T14:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=236783"},"modified":"2021-03-29T14:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:01:04","slug":"caravans-of-love-to-end-embargo-no-walls-can-resist-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/caravans-of-love-to-end-embargo-no-walls-can-resist-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Caravans of love to end embargo: no walls can resist us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa! The place where <\/span>Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed<\/span><\/a>, surrounded by Cuban \u00e9migr\u00e9s, fertilized the \u201cnew pines\u201d and discerned a new dawn for Cuba. Here, where among humble cigar makers and good Cubans, the Apostle conceived that longed-for and still elusive vision of building a nation \u201cwith all and for the good of all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tampa!<\/span><\/p>\n

This Sunday, 130 years after Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed’s visit to this city, Cuban \u00e9migr\u00e9s, Cuban Americans<\/a> and their children, those who have put down roots in this second homeland, are dreaming again that\u2014for our people\u2014a better world is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

People of different creeds and ideologies united by the love of their families met and paraded in a caravan to demand that the sanctions that weigh on the Cuban people be lifted, sanctions that are part of the economic <\/span>embargo<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Monument to Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed in Ybor City, Tampa. Photo: Courtesy of Carlos Lazo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But it wasn\u2019t just Tampa; Miami, New York, Las Vegas and other cities in the United States also joined in. In every corner of the American union, like unstoppable flowers whose precise time has come, these caravans of generous people who advocate for the end of the embargo on Cuba germinated.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the United States, this tsunami of love went viral and spilled over into the world<\/a>. In dozens of cities and towns on the planet, hundreds\u2014thousands\u2014joined this clamor, and it was as if Tampa were rekindling the light of hope. End the blockade! Let bridges of love be built!<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be grateful children! Let’s be bridges of love!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n