Díaz-Canel appreciated the historical position that the Mesoamerican nation has maintained with respect to the Island, and especially the pronouncements of López Obrador in recent months, when Cuba has been under the fire of a total war. This "solidarity of Mexico with Cuba has awakened in our people a greater admiration and the deepest gratitude," he said. Author: Yaima Puig Meneses | internet@granma.cu Author: René Tamayo León | internet@granma.cu September 16, 2021 17:09:57 A tribute "to the sustained, invariable, passionate and firm solidarity" that Cuba always finds in Mexico, paid the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, in his speech on the occasion of the parade civic-military for the celebrations of the 211 anniversary of the beginning of the independence struggle of the brother country. The Cuban president was the guest of honor of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for the celebrations of the date, a military parade that involved some 15,000 military personnel of all weapons of the armed forces and civilian personnel, who paraded for about three hours in the Plaza de El Zócalo. Díaz-Canel appreciated the historical position that the Mesoamerican nation has maintained with respect to the Island, and especially the pronouncements of López Obrador in recent months, when Cuba has been under the fire of a total war. This "solidarity of Mexico with Cuba has awakened in our people a greater admiration and the deepest gratitude," he said. "Thank you for the opportunity you give us to bring the grateful embrace of Cuba to your beautiful national celebrations for that Grito de Dolores (Cry of Dolores) that aroused so much desire for liberty in our region more than 200 years ago," said Díaz-Canel. "Among all the brothers that Our America gave us, Mexico counts, for many reasons, as one of the most endearing to Cuba," he declared, when he recalled "notable Cubans who left their blood and their names in the history of Mexico." He stressed that "Mexico was the first country to recognize our armed struggle and to open its ports to ships with the flag of the lone star", a position that "was approved by the (Mexican) Congress, Juárez sentenced and thanked by Carlos Manuel de Cespedes ». Díaz-Canel in turn extolled the role of Mexicans in our struggles for independence in the nineteenth century. They - he explained - "shone in the fields of Cuba and their feats inspired the troops and all who heard about them." Going through the centuries-old ties between the two nations, he recalled that Ernesto Che Guevara and Fidel Castro met here, through his brother Raúl. «Here the youth of the Centennial Generation trained and organized their expedition (...). We will never forget that, thanks to the support of many Mexican friends, the yacht Granma set sail from Tuxpan, Veracruz, on November 25, 1956 ». True to its best traditions - he pointed out - Mexico was the only country in Latin America that did not break relations with revolutionary Cuba when we were expelled from the OAS by imperial mandate. Regarding his participation as a guest of honor in the celebrations for the 211st anniversary of the Grito de Dolores, he expressed that he did so “aware that it is a recognition of the historical ties and brotherhood that exist between Mexico and Cuba. «The decision to invite us has an immeasurably greater value, at a time when we suffer the attacks of a multidimensional war, with a criminal blockade, opportunistically intensified, with more than 240 measures, in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic that is so dramatic it has costs for everyone ». Addressing López Obrador personally, Díaz-Canel told him: “Let me tell you, President, that Cuba will always remember your expressions of support, your permanent demand for the lifting of the blockade and that the annual vote of the United Nations is converted into concrete facts, something that your country has complied in an exemplary way for our people. BROTHERHOOD TIME In a shocking speech, the Mexican President evoked on his part the country's history and also spoke of friendship, singularities, mutual respect and commitments. Just this September 16, Mexico commemorates a new anniversary of the Grito de Dolores in the year of the bicentennial of Independence, and due to those singularities of history, said President López Obrador, “the date that the people of Mexico most celebrate is that of beginning, that of the Scream and not that of the consummation of national Independence ». As Mexicans, he said, we care more about the initiator, Hidalgo, than Iturbide, the consummate, because the priest was a defender of the common people and the royalist general represented those above and only sought to put on the imperial diadem. «Hidalgo was something else. It was his turn with Allende, Aldama, Jiménez and other popular leaders to confront the dominant oligarchy and proclaim the abolition of slavery ”, he valued. In his words was the tribute to the priest, of whom he stressed that "nothing in his personality distanced him from being a revolutionary and he did not beat around the bush." He was a deeply human man, a true Christian, he pointed out. After a journey through history through his ideas, López Obrador highlighted the uniqueness of commemorating the feat "with the participation of the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, who represents a people who have known, like few others in the world, defend with dignity its right to live free and independent, without allowing interference in its internal affairs by any foreign power. I have already said and I repeat: we may or may not agree with the Cuban Revolution and with its government, but having resisted 62 years without submission is an indisputable historical feat. For their fight in defense of the sovereignty of their country, he valued, the people of Cuba deserve the prize of dignity, and that island should be considered as the new Numancia, for its example of resistance, and I think that for that very reason it should be declared a World Heritage Site. In a gesture of deep support and extreme courage, on behalf of his government, he respectfully called on the United States government to lift the blockade against Cuba, “because no state has the right to subdue another people, another country. It is necessary to remember what George Washington said: "Nations must not take advantage of the misfortune of other peoples." «In all frankness, it seems bad that the United States Government uses the blockade to impede the well-being of the Cuban people so that they, forced by necessity, have to confront their own Government. If this perverse strategy were to succeed - something that does not seem likely due to the dignity to which we have referred -, I repeat, if it were successful, it would become a pyrrhic, vile and vile triumph. In a stain of those that are not erased even with all the water in the oceans. Understanding, mutual respect and freedom without conditions or arrogance is better, he said, referring to the search for reconciliation between Cuba and the United States, in which the Cuban-American community should “help, putting aside electoral or political interests. partisan ». «You have to leave resentments behind, understand the new circumstances and seek reconciliation. It is time for brotherhood and not for confront
