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Cuba’s May Day rally denounces new US sanctions

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2019 | 12:45 PM
A boy dressed in a military uniform salutes from his father's shoulders during the annual May Day parade at Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Cubans have taken part in the country’s annual May Day march, filing past former President Raúl Castro and successor Miguel Díaz-Canel in an event dedicated to denouncing new restrictions and sanctions announced by the U.S. government.

The crowd held an enormous white banner that read, “Unity, Commitment and Victory” in red letters.

The U.S. recently said it would place a new cap on the amount of money that families in the United States can send relatives in Cuba and moved to restrict “non-family travel.”

Loudspeakers blared the words of a march leader: “No foreign or extra-territorial law will take decisions in our country.”

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