With 18 votes in favor and 17 against, the Foreign Affairs commission of the Congress of Deputies of Spain approved a proposal that condemns the violations of Human Rights in Cuba and the slavery practices in the medical missions of the Havana regime.
The organization Prisoners Defenders reported that the proposal "not of law" (NLP), driven by People's Party, was approved by 35 votes, 18 in favor and 17 against, with no abstentions in a session attended by 35 deputies.
Vox and PNV voted in favor of ending abuses and human rights violations on the island and demanding that the Cuban regime end the repression against citizens, activists and opponents.
For their part, the PSOE, Sumar and Bildu were organizations that voted against.
The text of the resolution includes five demands, among which is the condemnation of the abuses and violations of human rights on the island, and putting an end to the policy of repression, especially in a context where popular protests are expected in the face of the unbearable energy crisis that keeps the Cubans with more than 20 hours of blackout a day.
The document put to the vote also expresses concern about the increase in the number of political prisoners and demands their immediate release.
"Since the events of 11J, all those deprived of liberty without judicial protection were brought, months or years later, before the judiciary, and were sentenced to remain in prison from 1 to 30 years in the first instance. Regarding this situation, the day February 29, 2024, the European Parliament approved Resolution P9_TA (2024)0122 on the “critical situation in Cuba” in terms of freedoms and rights, such as ideological and religious freedom, security, free movement, freedom of expression, etc", underlines the text.
It also condemns the working conditions promoted by the Cuban regime for its workers and civilian collaborators abroad.
"The Cuban regime has been responsible for expanding its limitations and violations of the rights and freedoms of its professional civilian personnel, such as doctors, sailors, teachers, artists or athletes, among many others, providing services to third parties abroad through the State or its companies", he emphasizes.
In addition, it requests that the Cuban authorities facilitate the return to Cuba of people who are in exile and of professionals and citizens who are not allowed to return to their families.
The proposal does not make any assessment or political judgment on the internal or foreign policy of the Government of Spain, which is why it has a clear vocation to seek the consensus of the democratic political forces, highlighted Prisoners Defenders, which collaborated with the team that drafted the resolution.
Last February, a group of MEPs of various political tendencies strongly requested sanctions against the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, for being the head of a "repressive apparatus" that attacks dissent on the island.
In an unprecedented denunciation, European parliamentarians described the situation in Cuba as a "shame for the Western world", while urging a reconsideration of relations between the European Union and the Caribbean nation.
"We reiterate the urgent need for concrete steps for a transition towards a full state on the island, and the holding of plural, free and democratic elections, as well as respect for human rights and individual freedoms," they demanded.
However, the Cuban regime has continued to repress the island's people, a fact that can be seen in the sentences of up to 15 years of prison imposed against several young people who protested in 2022 against the blackouts in the city of Nuevitas, Camagüey.
The regime has said that it expects new protests in the context of the energy crisis that keeps the population with power outages of up to 20 hours daily.
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