Havana_ Cuban women will present in the parallel events of the VIII Summit of the Americas the role achieved with the Revolution, Marisol Pérez, one of the representatives of the Island's civil society said in Lima, Peru.  

The official of the National Direction of the organization that brings together more than four million women said that to the summit scheduled next month in the Peruvian capital, the Cuban women will present concrete examples of the progress made in Cuba on gender equity and women's empowerment.

To mention an example, after the recent elections, we will have one of the leading parliaments worldwide in terms of female representation, she said.

The attendance at the polls on March 11 guarantees that from the 605 deputies to the National Assembly of the People's Power - which will be installed on April 19 in its IX Legislature - 53.2 percent are women, a figure surpassed only by Rwanda ( 61.3).

According to Pérez, there are also very illustrative data like in the Caribbean nation women are more than 80 percent of the teachers and professors, more than 70 percent of judges and prosecutors and 60 percent of those who practice medicine.

That is why we are committed to the defense of the Revolution and from those achievements we continue working, because we know that not everything is resolved, said the official, who participated in the 2nd Forum of the Cuban Civil Society 'Thinking Americas'.

The meeting, attended by more than a hundred organizations representing workers, professionals, students, women, peasants, religious and other sectors set a position for the Summit of the Americas in Lima.

In this regard, the civil society agreed a statement that unequivocally rejects the presence in Peru, within the framework of the preparatory process for the VIII Summit and its parallel events, of Cuban-born citizens and mercenary organizations at the service of foreign governments and institutions. .

Similarly, she demanded that the United States government “lift the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed for more than 55 years against the people of Cuba" and repudiated "the imperial and conservative regional oligarchy's desire to once again impose postulates of the infamous Monroe Doctrine '.

The statement also denounced any attempted aggression against any country in Latin America and the Caribbean, and ratifies the support of civil society on the Island to the people and government of Venezuela.

Regarding Venezuela, the FMC official condemned the exclusion of the South American country from the hemispheric summit, as well as the campaigns of the local and foreign right to destabilize and attack the Bolivarian Revolution.

Pérez defended the right of Venezuelans to raise their voice in Lima to expose their reality and unmask lies and manipulations.

At the summit we will also speak on behalf of that people, she stressed.

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