PRO-CUBA activists are set to walk from Miami to Washington — more than 1,000 miles — to demand that President Joe Biden end the crippling six-decade blockade against the socialist island.

Bridges of Love project co-ordinator Carlos Lazo announced the plans on Wednesday, soon after the United Nations general assembly voted in favour of a motion condemning the economic embargo.

The resolution was approved with 184 votes in favour, two votes against, and three abstentions, with the US and Israel the two nations in opposition.

Mr Lazo, a Cuban-born professor, said: “It is time to confront hatred and intolerance, to extend generosity and humanity to a people that, in the midst of a pandemic, resist the economic siege.”

The march will leave on Sunday with a 25,000-strong petition to be delivered to the White House a week later. Bridges of Love is also calling for the re-establishment of the US embassy in Havana and the restoration of flights to all Cuban provinces.

“We will stop in big and small cities, we will talk with everyone, with people of any race, culture, religion, and creed about the need for an end to this obsolete and inhuman policy of the United States towards Cuba,” Mr Lazo said.