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Cuba doesn’t have to indoctrinate anyone. It doesn’t have to export ideas. History teaches us lessons

The total suffocation to which we are subjected constitutes a collective punishment that seeks, through the deprivation of the most basic resources and services necessary for survival, to promote weariness, discouragement, and social division, with the aim of destroying the Cuban socialist project

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Closing Ceremony of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties Photo: Estudios Revolución

Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the closing ceremony of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties, at the Convention Palace, on August 8th, 2026, “Year of the Centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz”

(Shorthand Versions – Presidency of the Republic)

Comrades of the communist and workers’ parties of the world;
Dear Comrade Kemal Okuyan;
Brothers and sisters from all corners of the world who honor us with your presence in this rebellious capital today:
It is an honor to have celebrated this meeting in the context of Fidel Castro’s Centenary, whose undeniable legacy calls us to confront the enormous challenges of this turbulent and threatening present we are living through.
Cuba, island of dignity and historical resistance against imperialism, and today also against fascism, welcomes you with open arms and thanks you for your courage and determination in coming here, amidst so much pressure, blackmail, and lies.
At the previous meeting in Havana, in October 2022, representatives of communist and workers’ parties from more than 60 countries, who gathered at that time, agreed to warn about the dangerous situation humanity was facing. Almost four years later, we can reaffirm, without a doubt, that the world is going through one of its most uncertain and dangerous periods.
We are living through a period of extreme intensification of capitalist contradictions: excessive concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, inequalities in its distribution, environmental destruction, and wars fought over markets, resources, and spheres of influence.
Marxist-Leninist analysis remains fully relevant in asserting that these crises are not accidents, but rather the result of the laws governing the development of monopoly and imperialist capitalism.
Capitalism, consumed by its own contradictions, has unleashed a perfect storm: wars of aggression in Eastern Europe and the Middle East; open genocide in Gaza; a climate crisis that is no longer a warning, but a reality; structural hunger that devours millions; and an external debt that the peoples of the Global South will never be able to repay, because it was conceived to enslave us, not to develop us.
In this scenario, the resurgence of fascism sends us a stark warning. Fidel warned us about this years ago, about how it was transforming its appearance, but maintaining its essence. Today we denounce the reestablishment of fascist regimes around the world.
Nationalism, hegemony, supremacy, and racial discrimination; xenophobia, displacement, and population extermination; wars of conquest for territories and natural resources; punishments that fall upon millions of human beings; and the proscription of ideologies and civil liberties are unmistakable features of this current fascism and its Hitlerian predecessor

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Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez

Unending Loyalty

Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez will live on in every young person who holds a book, in every worker who builds a sugar mill, in every soldier who watches over the border…

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Photo: Juvenal Balán

Artemisa, 1932. There was no luxury in his cradle. There, in the sweat of the people and the neighborhood, a young man was born whom history was waiting for. Ramiro Valdés Menéndez learned before he could even walk that the homeland is not asked for, it is built. His mother, a follower of Cespedes and Martí, placed in his hands, more than bread, an ideology.
Life made him a lineman. And from the top of the electric poles, he saw the map of injustices more clearly. He was not just any worker: he was a guardian of dignity. When the 1952 coup thundered through the Cuban night, he wasn’t in a bureaucrat’s office: he was at the sugar mill, machete slung over his shoulder and dirt caked on his shoes. But the mill wasn’t his destiny; the mountains were.
He answered Fidel’s call, just as he answered the mission entrusted to him the day the young lawyer—without having been given the address—suddenly appeared at his house to find out how many of his friends from the neighborhood he could count on to make Cuba dignified.
Like so many Artemisans who, on July 26, 1953, transformed the Moncada Barracks into the first resounding cry for freedom, he was there. It wasn’t just another assault: it was the baptism of fire for a generation that preferred prison to shame. A prisoner on the Isle of Pines, exiled in Mexico, a sailor on the Granma… the odyssey had only just begun.
In the Sierra Maestra, Commander Ernesto “Che” Guevara, whom he cared for like a brother, wanted him by his side as second-in-command of Column No. 8. And he didn’t disappoint him. There, amidst the fog and bullets, the mettle of a Commander was forged—a Commander who didn’t need rank to lead, because he led by example. When victory dawned on January 1st, 1959, Ramiro was already a legend.
But the Revolution wasn’t meant to be rested; The Central Region, State Security, the days of the Bay of Pigs invasion—each responsibility was a stepping stone in his commitment. Minister of the Interior, First Deputy Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, Aide to the Commander-in-Chief, President of the Industrial Group for Electronics, Minister of Information Technology and Communications, Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Deputy Prime Minister… and in every position, the same word: loyalty.
But whoever thought that his title distanced him from practical matters didn’t know Ramiro. We, journalists, witnessed, on more than one occasion, his demanding nature. Not the demanding nature of someone who intimidates, but that of someone who meticulously monitors the operation of a thermoelectric plant or the progress of a key investment project for the country’s development with the patience of a watchmaker and the discerning eye of a military man. He didn’t raise his voice; there was no need. With the wisdom of someone who knows how to teach, he scrutinized every valve, every figure, every delayed schedule.
He asked about every detail like a seasoned specialist, because he was one. And in his questions, without fanfare, lay the deepest demand: that of someone who knows that time lost on a project is time stolen from the people; because Ramiro didn’t come from the lofty position of office, but from the lofty position of knowledge and history.
There was no higher mission, however, than the one that took him to Bolivia. To search for, locate, exhume, and transfer the remains of Che Guevara and his comrades was not a bureaucratic task: it was an act of poetic justice. Ramiro went to return to history what history had stolen from him.
Founder of the Central Committee of the Party and its Political Bureau, deputy to the National Assembly, he was, above all, a man of conviction. He knew neither discouragement nor betrayal. In every battle, in every trench, he stood by Fidel and Raúl, with a fidelity that transcends time and trends.
Today, when the news of his passing hurts like the loss of a father, Ramiro Valdés Menéndez lives on in every young person who holds a book, in every worker who builds a sugar mill, in every soldier who watches over the border. His example is not a statue: it is that youth that propels the country forward today.
Cuba, 2026. The Revolution loses one of its own, but gains a legend. And legends, like Che, like Fidel, like Camilo, do not die: they multiply. Ramiro Valdés, as he told a colleague in an interview, will continue to rise strong, through his example.

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Beats of 26 all over Cuba

Beats of 26 all over Cuba

Prior to the National Rebellion Day, commemorative events are held in the municipalities that, due to their comprehensive results, have deserved the provincial headquarters

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july 23, 2025 08:07:36

Photo: Pastor Batista

Yesterday, hundreds of inhabitants of the municipality of Diez de Octubre celebrated, on behalf of all Havana residents, the political-cultural act in salute to the 72nd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, an exceptional moment that the people of Espiritu also experienced, with the added motivation of having been an outstanding province.
The members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party, Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister of the Republic, and Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, presided over the central activities in the capital municipality; while the member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee and head of its Department of Services, Yudí Mercedes Rodríguez Hernández, accompanied the day in Sancti Spíritus.
As usual in these spaces, recognition was given to personalities, organizations and institutions whose contribution has been decisive for the main advances and results in the economic, political and social fields.
Once again, the majority support of the people to their Revolution was evidenced.

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Max Lesnik, back to his Cuba

Max Lesnik, back to his roots

Floral tributes from Raúl and Díaz-Canel to the tireless friend and revolutionary

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april 24, 2025 13:04:43

The remains were laid to rest next to those of his wife Miriam Alvarez Lesnik, in the Mother Teresa of Calcutta garden, by his daughter Vivian Lesnik, accompanied by the Commander of the Rebel Army, José Ramón Machado Ventura. Photo: Juvenal Balán

CAlthough he will not be in his hometown, the man from Camajuaní, Villa Clara, of which he never tired of talking about; to rest in Cuba is to be safe.
That feeling was breathed in the ceremony of placement of his remains, in the Basilica of San Francisco de Asis, in which the patriot, the family man, the father devoted to his own, the friend who cultivated loyalty without calculating distances, was evoked by the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Fernando González Llort.
The remains of the tireless Cuban, of the revolutionary who defended the Homeland from “the entrails of the monster”, as José Martí said, were deposited together with those of his wife Miriam Álvarez Lesnik, in the Mother Teresa of Calcutta garden, by his daughter Vivian Lesnik, accompanied by the Commander of the Rebel Army José Ramón Machado Ventura.
Floral tributes from the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, and the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, accompanied the heartfelt farewell.
When speaking of Max Lesnik, one cannot fail to mention his courage and commitment to Cuba, despite the many death threats he received, said Magda Resik, first vice-president of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. She also recalled Lesnik’s close friendship with Havana historian Eusebio Leal, whom she described as innate conspirators in favor of Cuba, which is why, as a last wish, he rests in the same place as his friend.
Present at the tribute were the members of the Political Bureau, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Teresa Amarelle Boué, Secretary General of the FMC; the member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz, and the member of the Central Committee and Vice-Chief of its Ideological Department, Marydé Fernández López, as well as family and friends.