Clarification needed regarding the call for applications dated April 1, 2014

Havana, Cuba (PI) – The Republican Party of Cuba (PRC) has called for a strike, along with several other organizations on the island. While no date has been set, the strike involves prior groundwork, aiming to compensate for the lack of access to mass media and thus reach the people. We are not opposed to the April 1st strike, but despite our efforts, we have been unable to contact its organizers. They may have some workers' union or opposition members willing to help them achieve this. Regardless of whether we make contact or not, we will support the initiative, but we distance ourselves from that date as promoters. The following is the official statement issued by the PRC along with other organizations. This statement takes into account previous attempts and seeks to overcome the factors that negatively influenced it. We will not engage in any misguided attempt to disassociate or discredit the action undertaken to remove active workers from jobs within the regime. We remain true to our previous declaration.

Republican Party of Cuba.

Chief Executive

Vladimir Calderón Frías.

Note: This statement was made public on February 18, 2014 on this official PRC page.

The Republican Party of Cuba, in solidarity with the Venezuelan people who are maintaining a non-violent protest demanding their freedoms and an end to the dictatorship, where the repressive response has been brutal, including crimes, knowing that the Caracas regime is a puppet advised by the Castro-communist tyranny, believes it is appropriate to act decisively and in a coordinated manner. Therefore, our initial position is to direct all our members who are still employed by the regime to an indefinite strike. We also ask this of family members, neighbors, and friends, assuring them that this is a good opportunity to demand that the tyranny that oppresses us leave, that we want a new provisional government of the opposition, based on the 1940 Constitution, and to create the necessary legal conditions for holding multi-party elections.

We ask the leaders of the other opposition organizations, who are being contacted, to proceed in this way in order to lead the people to a national strike and take to the streets and tell the dictatorship that its time is up.

As soon as other organizations decide to support this action, they will join the call that is already underway:

– Latin American Federation of Rural Women (FLAMUR).

– Republican Youth Impact (IJR).

– League of Independent Peasants.

– Juan Wilfredo Soto García Human Rights Movement.

– Máximo Gómez Democratic Movement.

– Eastern Democratic Alliance (ADO).

– Opposition Movement for a New Republic.

– Party for Democracy Pedro Luis Boitel.

– Pastors for Change.

– Progressive Arc.

– Christian Liberal Party.

– Martí Civic League.

We call upon exiled organizations and all individuals of goodwill to unite and act in unison. If you know of any isolated opposition members, their families, or friends, please urge them to cease working for official media outlets indefinitely. Use social media and mass media to pressure governments and public figures to speak out against the criminal actions in Venezuela and expose the Cuban dictatorship, which sponsors these anti-democratic practices in Latin America. Stop the state terrorism against opposition members and the people of Cuba. Seek a solution to both dictatorships, which are capable of genocide to maintain their grip on power.

We appreciate courageous stances like that of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias Sánchez, regarding the situation in Venezuela; more are needed. This act of solidarity extends to Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez) in his protest for respect for human dignity.

National Board of Directors.

Vladimir Calderón Frías.

Chief Executive Officer.

Republican Party of Cuba.