Keynote Address by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the opening of the 1st International Colloquium "Fidel: Legacy and Future," at the Convention Center, August 10th, 2026, "Year of the Centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz".
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The total suffocation to which we are subjected constitutes a collective punishment that seeks, through the deprivation of the most basic resources and services necessary for survival, to promote weariness, discouragement, and social division, with the aim of destroying the Cuban socialist project.
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From 8:00 pm on April 17 to 8:00 pm on April 18, 2026 (Central European Time – UTC: Madrid, Paris, Berlin, and Rome).
For 24 uninterrupted hours, we will raise our voices to denounce the policy of blockade, economic strangulation, and ongoing aggression imposed by the United States government against Cuba and other peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
