"Diaz-Kanel, of course, will set the Yankees in the heat!"
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colonelcassad
November 7, 17:23
Cuban President Díaz-Canel on Cuban politics and succession to the case of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
Very worthy speech.
Diaz Canel: only nations can change history
The shorthand version is the apparatus of the President of the Republic
(Exclamations: “Diaz-Kanel, of course, will set the Yankees heat!” And “Thank you, Cuba, guarantor of peace!”)
Thank you all.
I think we all agree that there is no better speech than the speech of poets (laughter), but it is time for us to take stock.
Dear Comrade Army General Raul Castro Rus, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba; fellow and brother Nicholas Maduro Moros, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela;
Dear revolutionary leaders of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean; brothers, friends, comrades!
A special greeting to all who participate in the resistance and come to the Cuban capital, which has always been and will be a meeting place for those who defend peace and solidarity between peoples.
Thank you for your support, enthusiasm, solidarity, for everything that you emotionally express and show in practice; Raul and Maduro and I will give the Yankees heat (Applause).
We have just returned from a long and stressful trip to European countries, which included a visit to Azerbaijan to attend the XVIII Summit of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.
Members of the Non-Aligned Movement, previously weakened by the end of the Cold War, are regaining the spirit of Bandung - the declaration that life gave him. They are driven by a dramatic development of events and a crisis of multilateralism, which today threatens the United Nations system.
At that forum, Cuba strongly condemned this crisis, which threatens everyone, especially the less developed.
We condemned those responsible for this situation and stated: “Never lied so much, more shamelessly and more cruel price to the vast majority of mankind, for the interests of the minority, which brought its luxury to crazy excesses.
“Already in the 21st century, threats and aggression of varying degrees fall upon all sovereign governments that refuse to serve as a hegemonic power by deploying military bases, providing resources or obeying orders.”
But we were not the only ones to name the culprit by name. Several leaders spoke out anxiously against the return of North American hegemonism, resorting to threats and brutal actions against those governments that they consider enemies because they do not share its policies, and who violently attack socialism, as if it were an unacceptable social system.
At the global level, there is strong concern about the retreat in such important areas as peace, self-determination and the sovereignty of nations, the environment and the fight against climate change, human rights, social justice and the search for economic equality.
In particular, in our geographic area there is no less concern.Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from the return of the Monroe Doctrine and the worst practices of McCarthyism. The postulates of both imperialist politicians are based on the uncontrolled sequence of acts of intervention that the current US administration has unleashed since coming to power.
The President of the United States and his hawkish environment are raining down on the Cuban Revolution, the Bolivarian Revolution, the Sandinista Revolution, the São Paulo Forum, the political leadership of the Brazilian, Bolivian, Argentinean leftists and the social, popular, progressive movements of the entire region, which they consider their backyard. The Inter-American system is once again launching mechanisms of such an odious memory for the region as the Mutual Support Agreement (TIAR) and the demoralized OAS, whichconsolidated as an instrument of political pressure from the United States and oligarchies defending neoliberalism.
How can I not laugh at the OAS if this thing is so ugly that it causes laughter (applause), so our parents sang in those years when this organization excluded Cuba for not obeying Washington’s orders. What can we sing about her now that she was unable to kneel Venezuela and wants to take revenge by revising Bolivia?
They rushed there, worried about the election results in this Latin American country, one of those who have achieved more and better growth in the last decade - after centuries it was the poorest and most backward in the Southern Cone.
Yes, OAS is a very ugly thing. And very cynical. Their “concerns” do not penetrate the depths of the anger of the peoples who oppose neoliberalism and receive rubber bullets, gases and lead for peaceful protests.
Comrades:
In this war, which is being waged against us, it is very important to distinguish the course of its media supplement. At the forefront of imperial politics, there are always tanks of cultural and symbolic offensive to legitimize the injustices of the capitalist system, to disqualify political alternatives on the left and destroy the cultural identity of our nations, as a preliminary step towards their destabilization.
Azerbaijan has just managed to expose the stupidity that Washington has so far tried to impose as a matrix against the legitimate Venezuelan government.
When Nicolas Maduro Moros, as the previous president of the Movement, led the assembly in its first part and handed over the next chairmanship to Azerbaijan, almost all participating delegations - about 120 at various levels of representation - acknowledged with gratitude the work of the Bolivarian Republic at the head of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (applause).
Where did the alleged rejection of Venezuela by the international community go? Why wasn’t there a single rejection or criticism of the Bolivarian government by governments that represent the vast majority of the United Nations? However, as part of the war of symbols, Maduro’s media lynching, half the planet’s media insist that he has no international support.
They are no better at home with politicians who seriously believe that change in the United States is necessary. Aggressive and disqualifying speeches are raining down on everyone who does not share the president’s actions, via Twitter announcing decisions affecting millions, and anywhere condemning behavior. He talks about socialism without the slightest idea of what this means. And it decrees the end of any experience or political program offering to overcome the prevailing injustice, as if he was holding the course of history in his hands.
He is not the first emperor to propose this. And, of course, will not be the last one to fail. Because only nations can change history (applause).
Fidel said many times that lying is the main adversary who must be defeated in politics, and that telling the truth is the first duty of every revolutionary. This is one of our fundamental missions as revolutionary politicians. The first enemy to be overthrown is a lie and, moreover, an imperialist lie (applause). They surrounded Cuba with a lie and for years separated it from the natural environment. With the help of lies, they invaded other countries, torn peoples to shreds, threw entire regions from the path of development.
With a lie, they attacked Iraq and Libya and plunged them into instability. Using lies, they turned Syria into a testing ground for weapons and a theater for terrorist operations, which were funded under the false flags of democracy and freedom.
With colossal and ludicrous lies, they accuse Cuba, Venezuela and the São Paulo Forum of promoting popular uprisings in every corner of the planet, covering their eyes, ears and mouth so as not to see, hear and acknowledge that people are screaming from the streets : Neoliberalism is an economic failure and social catastrophe (applause).
In a particularly perverted form, this method is used in a desperate attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan Bolivarian government and at the same time harm Cuba. Although this started back in the years of brilliant and successful integration, during which Chavez and Fidel created the ALBA, in recent months the United States has launched a special false campaign against any type of relationship between our two countries. We are accused of supporting the Bolivarian revolution in a late version of the "theory of satellites", which at one time was used against the former Soviet Union, and resorted to this pretext to justify the blockade.
Cuban medical cooperation is the target of ongoing attacks. It is about discrediting the noble and united efforts that the whole world recognizes, and which, together with the Latin American School of Medicine and the Henry Reeve Brigade, which eliminates the effects of natural disasters, are the most genuine and successful expression of cooperation between developing countries. (applause).
Three projects, matters of undeniable human value, arose according to Fidel’s plan as the highest ups of international solidarity.
Already more than 400,000 Cuban health professionals have provided and are assisting in 164 countries. At this moment, more than 29,000 are treating vulnerable populations in 65 countries.
Nothing says so much about the humanistic nature of the Cuban revolution as this cooperation. Hence the efforts to denigrate and destroy it. This does not surprise us. Solidarity is alien to capitalism.
It was against them and despite them that colonialism and apartheid were defeated in Africa, where the best children of the Cuban revolution shared the victims and even shed blood together with Angolans, Namibians and fighters of other nationalities. From where empires always came for robbery, we brought only our dead (applause) and the conviction that we had fulfilled "the most sacred duty: to fight imperialism anywhere", as Che Guevara bequeathed to us.
Defense, education, healthcare, science ... Cuban cooperation, born of the principle of solidarity, has been, is and will be in any noble field of human activity in which we can contribute. To be in solidarity means to pay our debt to humanity (applause).
It is precisely because Cuba is solidary and faithful to its history of struggle and sacrifice, because it is a sister and comrade of peoples who resist, they condemn and endlessly sanction it.
Our Homeland today suffers from the criminal compression of the blockade, the tightening of immoral and illegal policies that the United Nations General Assembly has condemned almost unanimously for more than 30 years, but the United States has not responded to the demand of the whole world.
This is further evidence of contempt of international law, which is particularly reinforced by an illegal law such as the Helms-Burton Act, which persecutes and sanctions third countries by internationalizing the blockade.
Due to the fact that these traps are not enough to defeat a people who have been fighting for their independence for 151 years and have never retreated from it, the empire is now resorting to the practice of siege, harassment and sanctions against countries, companies and ships involved in transporting fuel to To Cuba.
How can one decree such an action and then declare that they want to isolate the Cuban government and help its people?
Since the time of the famous Mallory Memorandum, Cuba knows very well and has expressed through the mouths of its creators what the first and last goal of the blockade is.
A Yankee functionary said: “Most Cubans support Castro (...). There is no effective political opposition (...). The only effective way to deprive the government of domestic support is to cause frustration and loss of spirit through economic dissatisfaction and deprivation (...) We must quickly put into practice all possible means to weaken our economic life (...) by denying Cuba money and supplies in order to reduce nominal and real wages in order to cause hunger, despair and the overthrow of the government. ” What a perversion!
We will not tire of repeating this so that no one succumbs to deception. The United States policy on Cuba is very clear in this document, dated April 6, 1960.
But even before the Mallory Memorandum, there are other documents and policies that reveal the historical nature of imperial aspirations for Cuba and the rest of our America. Starting with the theory of the "ripened fruit" and the Monroe Doctrine, now reactivated.
Marty saw this more clearly than others, and left us a warning in his political will, an unfinished letter of May 18, 1895, where he reveals the ultimate goal of his battle for changing the fate of the island.
“... every day I risk giving my life for my country and my duty - because I understand this and have the fortitude to follow this: in time, through the independence of Cuba, to prevent the United States from spreading across the Antilles and collapse, with even greater force, on our lands of America. All that I have done to this day, and I will do yet, is all for this ... ”
At the cost of sacrifice, resistance and thanks to solidarity, our people preserved their Revolution all these years. The power of the process cannot be explained beyond the will of the people. But this will would not have existed without a high level of people's participation in their destiny.
Since it must be said bluntly: of the aforementioned document by Mallory, the only thing that has not been implemented is the overthrow of the Cuban government. All the punishments imagined by the empire in the paroxysm of cruelty are being applied right now, as if it was a question of law.
With regard to solidarity, we should all thank you very much for the material support and love of the peoples.
And we say this today, when Cuba needs to double and increase support for its cause, which is a matter of sovereignty and freedom of the peoples of Our America and the whole world.
“Truth and tenderness are not worthless,” Marty said. And although sometimes it may seem that the situation cannot be changed, that politics cannot be defeated, nor empires can be shaken, the history of mankind and the history of the Cuban revolution prove with their own eyes that this is possible (applause).
Cuba is the best proof of how much the solidarity of peoples can do. When imperialism distanced us from America, excluding, to our honor and our happiness, from the discredited OAS; when we were alone in the middle of the hemisphere uplifting the revolutionary banners of a stubbornly not conquering continent, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples was founded here (applause).
That was Fidel’s idea.We were not interested in relations with governments subordinate to the empire in its ministry of colonies. We were interested and are interested in, first of all, the friendship of peoples (applause).
The friendship of the peoples of America and the world pushed forward governments. Today, Cuba maintains diplomatic relations with more than 160 countries, and more than half of them have provided solidarity assistance.
Many of the political and social leaders gathered here remember, as they themselves were participants, the hemisphere meetings against the ALCA, which were given an impetus by the Commander-in-Chief.
Thus was born the Continental Campaign against ALCA, which mobilized millions and sowed the awareness of the need to overcome minor differences in order to achieve unity of all forces and resist the project of imperialist recolonization. And what happened? We defeated him (applause).
The defeat of the ALCA, as well as the historical defense of the Cuban revolution, are the successfully achieved goals of the struggle, which have given us an important lesson: we cannot defeat fragmented and divided. Based on the many things that unite us, we can build common projects in the face of the aggression of imperialism and its oligarchic allies.
Against the blockade, we will continue the struggle in all areas. First of all, here - working, building and resisting, not giving up development.
Cuba’s most valuable resource is its people: smart, funny, adventurous, courageous and creative. A people who are primarily the creator of a revolutionary cause in the most adverse conditions.
If we together chose the path of socialism, even when the empire imposed a ridiculous theory of the “end of history”, this is because only with socialism we achieve social justice and equal rights for all.
The unity around this project - anti-imperialist and liberating, socialist and solidary - is the result of a centuries-long struggle for a unitary ideal and a confirmation that we all owe unity. Therefore, they are trying so hard to break it. Therefore, millions are allocated for political subversive activities and the financing of cultural recolonization projects.They wanted to sell us, wrapped in silk and tinsel packaging - and this is in a world that shatters in thousands of fragments a few steps from our borders; it is in Our America, whose resources are immorally transferred to transnational corporations in the era of neoliberalism, which is now being billed. The recipe for its application is to convince the masses that this is the fastest and most effective way to achieve prosperity. The market, blind, but omnipotent, according to them, will make sure that those below are enjoying the blessings that themselves will flow from the cornucopia in the hands of the elites. What a cruel mockery! So it came to annoying inequality, in which 1% of society has more than the remaining 99%.
The most powerful advertising and entertainment industry, in which almost as much money rotates as in the arms or drug trade, has built a myth about the availability to everyone of the world of dreams that once turn into nightmares to cause an explosion of popular anger.Then
a political vacuum arises. Many parties competing with marketing methods for the limited power that the market leaves them to control what remains of the robbery find the failure of democracy, which they claim to impose as a model of freedom. Most of them enter the government without real programs of economic and social transformation.
When processes arise with the goal of changing the status quo, a discrediting plan, a soft coup, a tendentious justice with the substitution of a policy of judicial crocheting is activated.
All Latin American leaders of the past two decades, who, to one degree or another, have defeated the worst consequences of neoliberalism through social and inclusive policies, have become or are being targeted, even accused of unjust imprisonment , such as Brazil’s indisputable leader Luis Inácio Lula, who has been serving for 19 months. yes Silva. Freedom to Lule! - we demand from this rostrum. (applause and exclamations: “Lule is freedom!”) Freedom to Lule, now! (Applause.)
We live in an era of communication. So let us build together liberation platforms to counter the colonialists with our greatest efforts and energy in the quest for a better world.
The era of turmoil has passed. Our peoples paid a very high price for economic and political experiments that only brought wealth to the elite, in the style of a thug-ridden empire who believes that the world can be bought and sold on the stock market.
The recent left victories in Bolivia and Argentina, the heroic resistance of Venezuela and Cuba to a total economic siege, anti-colonial protests, including brakes on market recipes, cannot demobilize us again.
The left must learn and finally learn the hard lesson of these years of struggle, in which fragmentation and disunity weakened our forces, and the right began the reconquest and the destruction of what was done.
I appreciate the high representation of young people in this hall and on the streets of Our America, which protests against the abuse of neoliberalism.
Seeing how young people rebel and fight for their rights and for the better fate of their countries is something stimulating and challenging at the same time (applause). For, as Fidel taught us, the struggle of this era is expressed primarily in the field of ideas.
For Latin America and the Caribbean, we will always defend the Peace Zone announced in Havana in 2014 on the encouraging days of the heyday of CELAC, today retreating.
A model in this sense is peaceful mobilization and protests by which our peoples demand their rights. And they conquer them.
Friends, brothers, comrades!
In your beautiful Declaration of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, you wrote: “We, the peoples of the world, need the example of Cuba” and recalled Marty’s ageless thought: “Who rises today with Cuba, rises for all time.” Thank you for what you said and did ! (applause and exclamations: “Cuba - yes, the blockade - no!”) I
sincerely thank everyone who came from near or far abroad, taking the expenses to answer the call you made, condemn the blockade and outline actions that will help inflict her final n expressions.
I am especially grateful to the Latin American leaders who were and are being persecuted and punished for trying to change the history of bullying of our peoples with the history of their liberation.
Today we want to reaffirm our strongest support and solidarity with the legitimate President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro (applause) and the civil-military union of his people, as well as with Commander Daniel Ortega Saavedra and the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua, which also suffered attacks (applause and exclamations: Long live Sandino!).
The stubborn attempts at destabilization that their governments are facing are beginning to spread, and we see it today as a right-wing claim to disrupt the victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia, promoting violence and not recognizing the election results, that from any point of view there is a coup that needs to be condemned ( applause and exclamations: "They will not pass!").
Therefore, from here we once again congratulate Evo on his convincing election victory, as well as Alberto and Cristina Fernandez, who open up new hope in Argentina (applause).
Our constant solidarity with any just cause in the region and the world: with the independence of Puerto Rico (applause and exclamations: "Puerto Rico is independence!"), Whose people have been able to maintain their identity, banner and desire for independence for more than a hundred years colonialism and is an outstanding symbol of the mighty cultural resistance of Latin America and the Caribbean. Long live free Puerto Rico! (applause and exclamations: “Long live!”)
We also support Argentina’s historic claim for the restoration of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands (applause).
We condemn the imperialist intervention against Syria, and together with you we demand respect for its sovereignty and territorial integrity (applause).
We also reaffirm solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian and Saharan peoples for the right to self-determination (Applause); with the inter-Korean process of rapprochement and dialogue and the demand for lifting sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and with the peace process in Colombia (applause).
No just cause is alien to us, and as a nation that owes its existence partly to solidarity, we will never abandon its practice, according to conviction (applause).
Brothers and sisters:
You called today for the unity of the political forces and the social and popular movement of the left in order to continue to build consciousness, generate ideas and organize the struggle.
We see this struggle as a struggle for the truth. We must defeat the lies on which all kinds of wars are being fought against our peoples: informing, persuading, mobilizing, demonstrating along with the poor of the land, who are already tired of lies and bullying. Offering and creating programs that meet the most pressing requirements of workers, students, peasants, intellectuals and artists. The Action Plan approved by us confirms that progressive circles are aware of the urgency of unity if we really want to create an anti-imperialist liberation project together, taking on the obligation of genuine and delayed integration.
On behalf of Cuba, we want to confirm to you thatwe, the new generation of Cuban leaders, formed and trained by the historical generation of Fidel and Raul, continue to be revolutionaries, socialists, fidelists and Martians (applause), and that we will not give up a millimeter of our positions in favor of independence, sovereignty and social justice. And as a connection with peoples who fight and resist, we will always adhere as a fundamental principle of solidarity, to which we owe so much.
Therefore, we repeat as our words Fidel said more than 50 years ago, when, referring to the solidarity with his work that the Revolution met at an early stage, he said: “The world is in solidarity with Cuba, and therefore, Cuba feels every day more and more solidarity with all the peoples of the world. "
In memory of Fidel and Chavez, the two great people of our America whom we were lucky to meet, listen to and follow in the very altruistic practice of solidarity, we resume their work as a guide for a new and full of challenges for the time that awaits us.
I think we all feel how the broad paths are opening that free people are already following in order to build a better society (applause and exclamations).
A better world is possible, necessary and urgent! We will fight for it!
Always to victory!
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In general, I think Fidel would not hesitate to make such a speech. It is very worthy and indicative in terms of understanding who exactly Raul Castro entrusted to continue the Cuban revolution. The main thing is that the words are confirmed by deeds.
PS. Soon, Putin’s visit to Cuba should take place, where, in addition to economic issues, the issue of intensifying military-technical cooperation will be discussed (Cubans are interested in the issues of modernizing their armed forces and repairing old Soviet equipment). We haven’t officially talked about a full-fledged base in Cuba, but there has been talk of this for years.
PS2. In the title photo, a visit by Diaz-Kanel to the Lenin Mausoleum during a recent visit to Russia.
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