Havana, April 8 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel called the people of the Caribbean nation heroic and expressed his willingness to die to defend all their rights, according to reports today.

“It’s a conviction that is reinforced in every encounter we have with this people. We must die for this heroic people. Because every day they are giving lessons in exemplary conduct and heroism,” the head of state declared.

During an interview with Spanish journalists Pascual Serrano, Javier Couso, José Manzaneda, and Carlos González Penalva, Díaz-Canel emphasized that, despite the country’s current difficult circumstances, its people are making great efforts to overcome them.

“Instead of seeing discouragement, instead of seeing frustration, he’s always on the move, always looking for ways to move forward, always looking for ways to fight and how to succeed,” he said during the exchange, broadcast Tuesday in a joint broadcast of the local television program Mesa Redonda, Cubainformación in Spain, and Venezuela News.

The president acknowledged that “we have negative tendencies, which become more acute and manifest themselves in times of crisis,” and which, he said, are addressed by “discussing our problems honestly.”

He also emphasized that “the heroism of the people is greatly fueled by the solidarity they receive from their friends around the world.”

“We know what it costs to defend Cuba and how pressure is brought to bear, how attempts are made to prevent individuals, groups, countries, organizations, and parties from defending it. Therefore, we will not let that down,” he asserted.

“Rest assured: the generation or generations that are today assuming the continuity of the revolutionary process are assuming the responsibilities of the government, of the party,” he commented.

They are, he emphasized, “generations loyal to the thinking of Fidel, to the thinking of Raúl, to the Centennial Generation. We learned from them. We share their convictions, and we will defend the Cuban Revolution to the bitter end.”

Responding to a question from Manzaneda, the president stated that “what most hinders our dreams, the achievements of the Cuban people, and I say this responsibly, is the blockade (economic, financial, and commercial by the United States government).”

But, he concluded, we also have to improve and perfect our work.

“The Cuban people resist by their own will, by their own conviction, by their own ability; but also because they know what the Cuban Revolution means to the world,” he noted.

For us, he noted, it is a great responsibility to see how so many people around the world, even in the most distant latitudes, have made it their lives to support the Cuban Revolution.

We cannot betray that, he reiterated, and clarified that “we do not want to be seen as a perfect society, but we do aspire to build a better society, and we want to work with those who want a better world, which is not only possible, but must be possible.”

“What I can assure you, and I dare to say this responsibly on behalf of the majority of the Cuban people, is that no one here gives up. No one here gives up,” he asserted.

And, he declared, they can continue to tighten the blockade, they can continue to slander all the achievements on social media, but there is a lot of morality, there is a lot of history to defend, and there is a lot of courage among the Cuban people.

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Havana, April 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez highlighted the discontent of the United States population with the administration of President Donald Trump, local media reported today.

“Hands-Off protests in more than a thousand cities across all 50 states, with nearly half a million people participating, denounce the plutocracy that governs that country,” the foreign minister said.

According to a comment by Rodriguez on the social network X, Trump governs focused on satisfying the interests of “big capital and against the aspirations of the majority of American citizens.”

Thousands of people demonstrated yesterday in the U.S. capital, Washington, as part of some 1,200 demonstrations across the United States and other parts of the world, according to various news reports.

In what is considered the largest day of protests against President Donald Trump, demonstrators also criticized the work of presidential advisor Elon Musk.

The radical reforms and cuts implemented by the government were criticized with the same intensity as outside of North America.

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Havana, April 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez today described as infamous the text that laid the foundations for the United States economic blockade of the island, on the occasion of its 65th anniversary.

On April 6, 1960, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Lester D. Mallory, in a secret memorandum, defined the philosophy of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed shortly after against the Caribbean nation.

“After 65 years of the infamous memorandum, the United States government maintains the same policy against Cuba,” Rodríguez stated through the social network X.

The Foreign Minister denounced the fact that the U.S. government is “making our people suffer” and attacking “their sources of livelihood” with the implementation of this siege.

He also accused Washington of including Cuba on its unilateral State Sponsors of Terrorism List, waging a cognitive and communications war against the Caribbean country, and orchestrating a smear campaign against Cuban medical cooperation.

In the document he sent to Eisenhower, then president of the United States, Mallory suggested destroying Cuba’s economy as “the only foreseeable way to undermine domestic support” for the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro.

“We must quickly employ all possible means to weaken Cuba’s economic life,” he declared.

For more than six decades, Cuban authorities have denounced this hostility in various national and international forums.

They have also rejected the White House’s intention to excuse this policy and other sanctions from the shortcomings in this country and, therefore, blame the Cuban government’s actions for them.

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Havana, April 4 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez accused the United States today of hiding for years its intention to damage the Caribbean country’s economy in order to harm its population.

“Now, the State Department envoy publicly confesses it, as if it were legitimate to attack and abuse an entire population to force a change of government,” Rodríguez denounced on the social network X.

In this regard, Cuban diplomats pointed out that, despite the United States’ denials, it is impossible to deny that the blockade is a weapon of aggression, abusive, inhumane, and immoral.

Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío also denounced in X that U.S. government officials “no longer hide their goal of destroying the Cuban economy and the results of what they have achieved in causing pain to the people. It used to be a covert policy, and they used to blame the Cuban government for our economic problems.”

According to Johana Tablada, deputy director general of the United States Directorate of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the U.S. war policy has failed in its political objective, but it has succeeded in causing suffering to Cuban families.

In an interview with the website Cubainformación, he argued that the U.S. nation’s economic warfare measures served to torture the Cuban population, “in a kind of laboratory experiment to suffocate and cut off all their sources of income.”

When asked why President Donald Trump isn’t taking steps toward lifting the blockade, he explained that “the issue of Cuba has been outsourced to sectors in South Florida, which have made a lucrative business out of the policy of aggression against the Cuban Revolution and the economic siege of our country.”

The hypothetical end of the siege on the island, he admitted, would be beneficial for both countries, in areas such as investment, culture, or access to Cuban medications such as Heberprot-P, which prevents diabetic foot amputation, a condition that affects thousands of people in the United States.

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