On Friday, December 20, a massive one-hour and 45-minute march took place in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, with the participation of more than 500,000 people, representing the Cuban people.
The march was a massive demonstration to denounce and demand the end of the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba and the exclusion from the unilateral list of countries that sponsor terrorism by the United States.
The multitudinous demonstration was led by the Army General and leader of the Revolution, Raúl Castro, Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic and the main leaders of the country.
The largest popular mobilization in recent times in Cuba was a demonstration of social consensus, governability and popular support and confidence in the Revolution and its leaders. It also represented an act of unity and resistance and defense of the homeland, against the threats of the United States.
The confidence and optimism of the Cubans was appreciated despite the daily difficulties in the supply of food, medicine, electricity and transportation, caused by the iron and prolonged economic blockade.
It was a demonstration in defense of the Right of the Cuban people to live in peace, without interference and to choose their destiny, by virtue of the Right to Self-Determination and in defense of the sovereignty and independence of Cuba.
Speaking to his compatriots, the Cuban president recalled that the current American administration, which as of December 20 has exactly one month left in the White House, "has done nothing to move away from the line of reinforced blockade and economic suffocation of Cuba, which was left as a legacy by the Republican administration that returns to the Oval Office in January."
The President of the Republic stressed that there are numerous statements from personalities from the United States and other parts of the world, demanding that President Biden use his power to at least remove from that spurious list "the name of a nation that should never have been on it."
Pointing out Cuba as a State that supposedly sponsors terrorism - the president said - "is at the very least false and immoral, wherever the accusation comes from, but it is doubly so when the accusation comes from U.S. territory, where paramilitary groups that organize, promote and finance terrorist actions against social and economic structures in Cuba are currently training."
"No American leader can classify Cuba as a terrorist state," he stated categorically in his vibrant speech.
Later, Díaz-Canel considered that "the permanence of Cuba on that list and the intensification of the blockade policy are ruthless actions towards the Cuban people, which must cease now."
Díaz-Canel confirmed that "we do not profess the slightest feeling of hatred towards the American people."
"Towards the noble citizens of that country, all our respect, and the hand always extended to strengthen the ties of brotherhood between our two peoples," said the Cuban Head of State.
In the voice of the President of Cuba, the feeling of an entire people was heard, convinced that, if the United States persists in its efforts to break its sovereignty, independence and socialism, they will only find rebellion and intransigence. "Every administration that has tried, has survived the Cuban Revolution, and it will continue to be so."