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Cuba, true to its history, confronts intervention

Cuba, true to its history, confronts intervention
«Resulta hipócrita que EE. UU. no tolere la interferencia en sus asuntos internos, pero promueva y financie acciones desestabilizadoras dirigidas a subvertir el orden constitucional en Cuba», publicó en Twitter el canciller Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla. «Tales maniobras intentan encubrir el atropello de su política criminal e inhumana», apostilló

Author: Raúl Antonio Capote | informacion@granmai.cu
november 5, 2021 12:11:47


Photo: Artwork Frederick Coffay Yohn.
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill supporting the violent counterrevolutionary actions that took place in Cuba July 11. The initiative will now be considered by the Senate, and if approved, will be sent to the President for his signature, to become law at that point.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla tweeted a comment on the move, stating, “It is clearly hypocritical that the United States does not tolerate interference in its internal affairs, but at the same time finances and promotes destabilization mean to subvert the constitutional order in Cuba.”
The bill was sponsored by Democratic legislator Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and received the support of Republican Mario Diaz-Balart, both representatives from Florida.
Pushed by the most retrograde sectors of anti-Cuban politics, this latest interventionist skirmish mounted by mercenary political operators is meant to promote destabilization. But, their hopes of creating a perfect storm – combining the brutal blockade, reinforced with 243 measures imposed by Donald Trump and maintained by Biden and the multidimensional impact of COVID-19 – did not lead to the longed-for collapse of the revolutionary government.
July 11 was a victory of the revolutionary people, the plans of imperialism were defeated in the very streets they sought to fill with chaos and death.
The country did not come to a halt. Mass starvation, collapse of the health system, death and chaos did not occur. Cuba created its own vaccines and medicines, tightened its belt and distributed the loaves and fishes for all. Our health workers saved lives and the country is reborn today, proud of its scientists, inaugurating new factories, passing laws, changing everything that needs to be changed.
Washington threatens, threatens new coercive measures, creates laws that purport to sustain the (in)morality of its mercenaries; while Cuba remains true to its history: peaceful in work and friendship, but unwavering in honor, with our horses saddled and ready for battle.

Cuba sovereign and independent, Fake Protest

The United States government is the real organizer of November 15 provocation


HAVANA, NOVEMBER 4, 2021


The United States government is the real organizer of November provocation
Plans hatched by the U.S. government and its internal operators to overthrow the Revolution and their pretensions to hold marches in several provinces across the countrywere discussed recently by Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, member of the Communist Party of Cuba Secretariat and head of its Ideological Department

Author: Gladys Leydis Ramos López | internet@granma.cu
november 4, 2021 12:11:25
Plans hatched by the U.S. government and its internal operators to overthrow the Revolution and their pretensions to hold marches in several provinces across the country were discussed recently by Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, member of the Communist Party of Cuba Secretariat and head of its Ideological Department.

In the presence of representatives from youth and student organizations, Polanco explained that his statement was among the many public condemnations made in the wake of comments by Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, during the closing of the Central Committee’s second plenum.

Polanco recalled that between September 20 and 27, a small group of citizens submitted similar documents in which they announced the decision to hold supposedly peaceful marches to the headquarters of provincial and municipal governments in eight territories of the country.

This decision, he underlined, was more than a request since those submitting it were certain the march, conceived with national scope and in evident coordination with its promoters, would take place; meanwhile, the answer given by the authorities on October 12 provided precise arguments on the illegal nature of this act in relation with items 56, 45 and 4 de of the Constitution.

Among the reasons given to decline the request, he added, it was clarified that the public projections of the promoters and their links with subversive organizations and agencies financed by the U.S. Government have the clear intention to promote a change of the political system in Cuba, therefore, the announced march is another provocation related with that strategy, which has been previously mounted by the United States in other countries.

He recalled that, upon its announcement, the march received the support of U.S. legislators, political operators and the media that encourage actions against the Cuban people, promote destabilization and call for a military intervention.

Warning: This has been tried before

It is obvious that we are witnessing a new episode of the unconventional war, soft coup or the nonviolent struggle manual that the United States has executed during contemporary times in several countries such as Yugoslavia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, said the member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee.

According to the circular 18-01 (tc-1801), one of the main doctrinal documents of the U.S. Army Special Forces on unconventional warfare, some of the elements of this kind of warfare include taking advantage of the vulnerabilities of the government they wish to overthrow, to make it distant from the population, turn the citizens with a neutral standing against the government, and to exploit these elements through subversion, he detailed.

Furthermore, he added, if these methods do not bring the desired results, they would resort to armed conflict, by promoting insurgence.

The most notorious example, he said, is the guarimbas in Venezuela, violent actions of the opposition of that country held during the years 2013, 2014 and 2017 to try to overthrow the Bolivarian government and, in that endeavor, the cause countless economic and human damages in that sister nation.

The evidences are collected in a report of the Venezuelan government entitled “Venezuela’s truth against infamy. Data and testimonies from a country under siege,” published in September 2020, where it is informed that the total toll of the violent protests in February 2014 reached the total number of 43 people, meanwhile, in the ones that took place from April to June, 2017, causing 21 deaths and 1,958 injuries.

Moreover, the U.S. State Secretary in 2014, John Kerry, issued a statement in which he said that the protests taking place in Venezuela that year were peaceful and accused the government of Venezuela of using the force to confront protesters, he continued.

However, a detailed examination showed that most of the protests in 2017 broke international and national laws in force and they all ended up in actions of extreme violence.

In this sense, Polanco continued, three unprecedented practices in the recent history of the country were registered: the burning alive of people identified as followers or supporters of the national government; the use of children and teenagers to prepare incendiary bombs, guard the barricades and attack security forces and the combination of religious and patriotic symbols with high levels of violence.

Regarding the financing of subversive actions in other countries as a periodical practice of the U.S. government, Polanco referred to the organizations created for that purpose, with millions in funding, including the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the US Agency for International Development.

There are plenty of references of NED financing events, courses and even organizations, especially the Center for Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL), which is part of the wide network of non-governmental organizations used by the United States to channel the financing and training of its political operators.

He gave the example of NED’s funding of CADAL to the tune of $107,000 in 2017 and $100,000, earmarked for the project entitled “A regional approach to promote democratic values in Cuba.” Two Cuban citizens, Manuel Cuesta Morúa and Yunior García Aguilera, signatories of the letters announcing the intention to hold the marches in November, travelled to Argentine in 2018 to take part in the event organized by CADAL and coordinated by the project “Times of change and the new role of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba.”

Moreover, CADAL and its director Gabriel Salvia have been actively supporting the provocation set to take place in November in Cuba, he denounced.

Those two promoters, he clarified, would also continue their preparation in 2019 in a workshop sponsored by the Universidad San Luis Campus Madrid, where they received lessons from Richard Youngs, an expert in public protests as a method of political change.

Regarding the financing, he stressed out that the U.S. Agency for International Development has granted, at the end of September, $6,669,000 for subversive projects in Cuba, out of a total of 18 million that it can allocate for these projects through 2023.

Among the beneficiaries are the digital media DNA, which received $2,031,200 and Cubanet, which received $708,003, in addition to an organization called Cuban Democratic Directorate, which received $617,500. The latter is headed by Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, who has called time and again for military intervention in Cuba, and now publicly supports the marches as well.

Summing up, Polanco noted that more than 70 million were reserved for subversion during the Trump administration, in addition to more than one hundred million dollars to the Office of Broadcasting for Cuba, which operates Radio and TV Martí. It should be added, he pointed out, the millions of dollars that the intelligence community and the U.S. military apparatus devote every year against Cuba.

“The U.S. government is the real organizer of the provocation staged for November. The facts and statements prove it. High government officials are directly involved in its promotion. The U.S. government threatened new measures against Cuba if its local operators are not allowed to act with impunity. Cuba does not accept threats, nor does it allow itself to be intimidated; our history of resistance and dignity confirms this. Keep your threats to yourselves, we are not afraid,” he said.

It is not surprising either, he added, the support of anti-Cuban right-wing organizations and the hate-generating media nucleus in Miami, as seen in tweets, publications, resistance assemblies, as if the march were to be held in that city.

Another of the enthusiasts, informed the head of the Ideological Department, is the Cuban American National Foundation, which has provided plenty of guidance on how to attend and what to do in the supposedly peaceful and independent march; while one of the promoters of the demonstration, Saily González Velázquez, acknowledged the support of the foundation through its director of Human Rights, Omar López Montenegro.

Terrorist Ramon Saul Sanchez is also encouraging the march, added Polanco, and showed evidence of his toes with one of the main promoters of the actions planned for November.

Communist Party of Cuba

Full text of speech by Communist Party of Cuba First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

Díaz-Canel: We are ready and willing to do everything to defend what is most sacred, what unites us
Full text of speech by Communist Party of Cuba First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, during the closing session of the Central Committee’s second plenum, October 24

Author: Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez | internet@granma.cu
october 27, 2021 08:10:08



Photo: Estudio Revolución
Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Central Committee and President of the Republic, during the closing of the Central Committee’s second plenum, held at the Convention Center, October 24, 2021, Year 63 of the Revolution

(Transcript: Presidency of the Republic/Translation: GI)

Dear Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution;
Compañero and compañeras, members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba;
Guests:
For almost two days the second plenum of the PCC Central Committee has met, the first one following the Congress, since, you will remember, the first plenary session was held during the Congress, and that it was postponed due to the occurrence of a resurgence of the pandemic, which has required us to focus on aspects concerning the functioning of the Party in giving continuity to the Congress, and also address current issues of the Party’s work.
We have addressed the implementation of Eighth Congress agreements; the modification of statutes; norms for the functioning of permanent commissions; the strategy for implementation of the cadre policy, the program for transformation of political-ideological work; the process of evaluation of PCC committees; and the program of digital transformation of the organization.
In addition, the political assurance of important processes to be undertaken, and necessary debate on the improvement of People’s Power, were discussed.
The complexity of the present moment implies the need for us to meet more frequently to debate and make decisions on the most urgent and strategic problems the country currently faces, especially if we are able to discuss the issues in depth, objectively, comprehensively, and in a critical manner, in order to find solutions to the complex problems that concern us. This spirit was evident during this second plenum, as the Army General stated.
An analysis of the country’s situation and the global situation shows us that the world in COVID-19 is not only the unjust world that revolutionaries dream of changing. It is that world, but now under the effects of many simultaneous crises: economic, labor, productive, environmental, sanitary and also moral crises.
Cuba has not escaped the critical conjuncture facing the planet; undoubtedly, we are not the most affected, but we are the most punished. No underdeveloped nation is burdened as we are with the aforementioned crises along with the conditions imposed by the economic blockade, reinforced and intensified with 243 measures imposed by Trump and maintained by Biden, in addition to facing an intense, blatant and perverse communicational war. We are the only people in the world facing punishment this cruel, for this long.
It is up to us to give a worthy response to this undeserved, immoral sentence. Our originality is obliged to be as great as the wickedness of our adversary. We are challenged to be exceptional in our ability to resist and create. This is how it has been since the beginnings of the Cuban nation; this is how the Cuban Revolution has resisted 62 years undefeated.
The enemy has not ceased in its efforts to destroy us and cannot forgive the audacity of younger generations to continue the will and commitment to maintaining our independence, sovereignty and the construction of socialism.
The stated objective of the U.S. government is to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.
The enemy’s hope is that our great material difficulties will weaken the people and bring them to their knees; that are why they promote the idea that the country cannot resist.
This U.S. administration is trapped by the desire to win the Florida vote and these electoral purposes condition its policy toward Cuba, which has become dominated by the Cuban-American mafia in Miami. These facts are not coincidental; there is an intention, premeditation, and political interest.
The imperialist strategy is to create maximum discontent within our country. To foment instability through the erosion of the population’s living conditions, make it more and more difficult for us to survive, in order to lead us to the eruption of a violent conflict. They intend to fill us with hatred and take away our happiness.
The campaign is malicious; they disparage our achievements, disseminate grossly distorted images of our reality, attempt to strangle us economically, undermine solidarity with Cuba, making use of lies and slander. Representatives of the U.S. government constantly make human rights accusations against Cuba in their social network posts, keeping the issue in high profile.
Reflecting the current situation of bilateral relations with the United States, the U.S. embassy in Cuba has been playing an active role in efforts to subvert the internal order of our country. This behavior is not new; it has always been the norm in one way or another since the establishment of the interest sections in 1977.

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The Defense of Cuba

The trade union movement will mobilize

Cuban workers denounce poorly concealed objectives of mercenary ruckus
The trade union movement will mobilize alongside the entire people against those who are determined to undermine Cuba’s sovereignty and the conquests we have collectively achieved, wielding its most powerful weapons: unity and patriotism

Author: National news staff | informacion@granma.cu
october 20, 2021 10:10:15



Photo: Prensa Latina
Given the latest escalation of subversive campaigns against the Revolution, the Federation of Cuban Workers (CTC) issued a statement outlining the national proletariat’s intransigent position rejecting the most recent maneuvers orchestrated by “internal political operators, led and encouraged from abroad,” who have announced “the intention to conduct a march which they present as peaceful and lawful, invoking the Constitution.”

In reference to Articles in the Magna Carta, the CTC recalled that no legal demonstration can disturb citizen tranquility, incite overthrowing the established order, infringe on the rights of others, affect collective security, general welfare or the public order, and must always be conducted with respect for the law.

On the contrary, the statement asserts, the poorly disguised objective of the mercenary ruckus is to provoke a change in Cuba’s political system and a return to capitalism; noting that this is made clear by “the decisive support, evident in the avalanche of messages on social networks, by figures abroad clamoring for a U.S. military intervention, notorious terrorists, counter-revolutionary figures in Florida and even the remains of the defeated mercenary Brigade 2506.”

In the face of such aggression, the statement reaffirms that “Cuban workers, united around the Federation of Cuban workers and its affiliated trade unions, are advancing in the construction of a new society and updating our economic model to build a better country, strongly condemn those who promote destabilization. We are convinced that no provocation will succeed in demoralizing or intimidating those of us struggling here for the present and the future of the nation.”

The statement reiterated that the Cuban trade union movement will mobilize alongside the entire people against those who are determined to take away our independence, our sovereignty and the conquests achieved with collective sacrifice. In this exercise of legitimate defense, “We will wield our most powerful weapons: unity and patriotism.”