Dublin, January 31, 2019. Responding to an invitation from university students at Trinity College, the Cuban ambassador, Hugo René Ramos Milanés participated in a conversation dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
The Cuban diplomat outlined many challenges that the Cuban Revolution had to overcome during these decades, ranging from terrorist aggressions, the economic blockade, the fall of the socialist bloc, to climatic phenomena. He stressed that those challenges would not have been overcome without the active participation of a broad majority of the Cuban people, the main protagonist of his Revolution.
Transcendental events of 2018 were also a matter of exchange, highlighting the election of President Diaz-Canel, a son of the Revolution and exemplary representative of a generation determined to give continuity to the work of the historical leaders of the Revolution led by Fidel Castro Ruz. The broad process of popular discussion of the text of the new Constitution was also cited as an example of maturity in the exercise of popular democracy.
Among the major challenges of this year that has just begun, is to face the efforts of the United States government to intensify the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba and the threat to apply Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, which for its aggressive extraterritorial content, aims to further hamper Cuban foreign trade and block the process of foreign investment in the island.
Faced with this and even in this complex situation, the Government and the Cuban people are engaged to achieve the efficiency and economic sustainability of the Revolution, which ensures the preservation and expansion of their achievements.
The growth of the aggressiveness of the Trump Government and the Latin American oligarchies against the progressive forces of the continent and especially the situation in Venezuela was another topic of exchange.
Ramos Milanés stressed that those who in May 2018 made to fail the negotiations between the government and the Venezuelan opposition and encouraged the latter to boycott the elections they had been demanding, are the same ones that refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the elections won by the President Mature. They are the same ones that today are trying to legitimize the attempted coup d'etat and do not hide their desire for the United States to intervene militarily in Venezuela, even though a bloodbath may occur and the destabilization of the Continent may spread.
In the face of the ferocious propaganda campaign against Bolivarian Venezuela, the solidarity of honest men must be raised, the call for the cessation of external interference and opening channels for dialogue.
Some leaders of the "Workers’ Party of Ireland" also participated in the meeting.
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