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Faced with threats from the empire, Cuba stands firm

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The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, stated on his social media account that, “in the face of the worst-case scenario, Cuba has one certainty: any external aggressor will encounter an insurmountable resistance.”

“The U.S. publicly threatens Cuba, almost daily, with the forceful overthrow of the constitutional order. And it uses an outrageous pretext: the severe limitations of the weakened economy that they have attacked and attempted to isolate for more than six decades,” he added.

He also denounced the hostile economic war waged against the island, applied as collective punishment against a people by an empire seeking to seize the country, its resources, its property, and even the very economy they are trying to suffocate in order to force our surrender.

The Cuban president’s words were echoed by Political Bureau member and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who also alluded to the aggressive policies of the United States and the unwavering will of the Cuban people to maintain their independence.

“The collective punishment being inflicted on Cubans will not diminish the full exercise of sovereignty nor our creativity in the face of the blockade and the energy embargo,” he said.

“Every act of imperialist aggression will clash with the indomitable will of the Cuban people in the defense of the homeland’s independence,” he declared.

They cannot forgive us for uniting in solidarity as Latin Americans

 They cannot forgive us for uniting in solidarity as Latin Americans and Caribbeans without imperial tutelage
Speech by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, during the commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, at the University of Havana, December 14

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Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, during the political-cultural event commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the peoples of Our America-Peoples Trade Agreement, at the University of Havana’s Grand Stairway, December 14, 2019, Year 61 of the Revolution

(Transcript: Presidency of the Republic)

Good evening.

This event is turned around: Maduro, Ralf and Daniel spoke just a bit and now I am going to have to speak a little more. (Laughter)

Dear Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee;

Dear ALBA-TCP heads of state and government;

Dear heads of delegations and guests:

Students of our universities, the present and future of the Cuban nation. To you and to all young people of Cuba, Latin America and the Caribbean, we address you today!

We have come here, to our glorious Grand Stairway, to celebrate 15 years of ALBA-TCP, because this alliance has its roots in the first meeting of two giants of Our America: the Comandante en jefe of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, and the then (young) leader of the Bolivarian Movement 200, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías.

That meeting, which changed the history of Latin America and the Caribbean and impacted the world, took place December 13-15, 1994.

As is occurring today, we were living complex, uncertain days for the region and the world. And it was here nearby, in the University of Havana’s Aula Magna, where for the first time the analyses and premonitory proposals were heard of what, with time, joint effort, and the advance of progressive governments, would emerge in 2004 as this paradigm of solidary integration that we know as ALBA-TCP.

We also choose the Stairway, the door to our University, one of the oldest in America, because the present and future of Cuba and much of the rest of the world pass through here every day, young people from sister nations, students who share classrooms and dreams with our sons and daughters.

We firmly believe that universities cannot be disconnected from our world or its pressing problems. Here Fidel became a revolutionary, here he spoke to his Latin American contemporaries, with Hugo Chávez, here we study and think about the best possible world that we revolutionaries have set out to set our minds to winning. Continue reading They cannot forgive us for uniting in solidarity as Latin Americans