Delegates from the NEU conference in Harrogate hold up a banner from the ‘Viva La Educacion’ campaign
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PRACTICAL solidarity from teachers is breaking the US-imposed economic blockade on Cuba and supporting the education of its children, the head of the socialist nation’s biggest teaching union said today.
Addressing the National Education Union (NEU’s) 2023 conference in Harrogate, SNTECD general secretary Niurka Maria Gonzalez Obera thanked members for helping her compatriots to resist the 61-year trade embargo which has impoverished citizens and has been condemned as inhumane.
Speaking in Spanish, she praised a joint push from the NEU and the Cuba Solidarity Campaign to raise nearly £100,000 to fill two 40-foot shipping containers with educational aid for schools lacking basic equipment across the small Caribbean island.
During visits to Cheney School and Oxford Brookes University, Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter highlighted how Cuba devotes half its budget to education, health and social security despite the US blockade, reports ROGER McKENZIE
