Havana, January 30 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Díaz-Canel declared today that Cuba will overcome the recent executive order signed by US President Donald Trump and urged the Cuban people to respond to this measure with creative resistance and intelligence.
“Even if there is a fuel blockade, Cuba will not be defeated by the empire,” the head of state declared during the extraordinary plenary session of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in this capital.
He also urged the people, with the PCC militants at the forefront, “to fight, to create, to transform, to build and to share results with creative resistance and intelligence,” according to the summary of the meeting published on the Presidency of the Republic’s website.
Thus, he affirmed, it is the best way to react to the executive order signed by Trump, which, after labeling Cuba a threat to American security, establishes tariffs for countries that send oil to the island.
Díaz-Canel announced that Cuba will denounce this measure in every possible forum and assured that the Cuban condemnation will be supported by the countries and organizations that each year request the cessation of the United States’ economic blockade against Cuba at the United Nations.
“What right does an emperor have? What right does an empire have? What right does the government of a powerful nation have to deny a small country the fuel it needs to develop?” he questioned, and asserted that Cuba is a peaceful country, focused on promoting its development without threatening the national security of any state.
“Even amidst all this aggression and the blockade of all these years, we have said that we have the capacity and willingness to engage in dialogue with the US government. The problem is that dialogue cannot take place under pressure. Dialogue must be on equal terms, with respect, and without preconditions,” he emphasized.
“There is an asymmetry in the Cuba-United States relationship, and the United States created that asymmetry with the blockade,” he pointed out.
“We,” he stated, “did not attack the US. We have nothing against the American people.” He added that, due to the White House’s hostility, the people of both countries have no cultural, scientific, sporting, or educational relations.
On the other hand, the Cuban president referred to the recent US military aggression against Venezuela and commented that the action is part of a war against that country that began long before January 3, when President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were arrested.
Regarding this, he highlighted the confrontation between Cuban fighters and “elite US forces who had rehearsed an operation to kidnap the president in a few minutes, with superiority in men, technological superiority, superior weaponry, drones, a sophisticated deployment of technology, and tremendous firepower.”
“One day we will have to recognize how much the courage and example of the 32 Cubans who fell fighting the US invasion of Venezuela contributed to everything that is happening and what may happen in the future,” he said, and warned that “the empire has to calculate what an attack on Cuba would cost it.”
The extraordinary plenary session of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in Havana concluded a process carried out in all provinces and the Isle of Youth, aimed at promoting the country’s comprehensive growth based on territorial projections and ensuring the leading role of party members in economic and social programs.
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