Our horizon continues to be socialist
Speech delivered by H.E. Miguel M. Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic of Cuba at the closing ceremony of the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties at the Convention Center, on October 29, 2022 “Year 64 of the Revolution”.
Dear comrades,
Brothers and sisters of struggle,
The blockade remains in place and intact
New York, 28 October 2022. The measures on Cuba announced last 16 May by the government of Joseph Biden regarding the coercive design imposed during the mandate of Donald Trump have a very limited nature. The blockade remains in place and intact.
Here are some examples:
Along with the economic war, the U.S. government has unleashed a media war against Cuba
New York, 27 October 2022. The genocidal and hostile U.S. policy against Cuba is a broad system of unilateral coercive measures, with a wide extraterritorial spectrum.
It is not a bilateral conflict, as they pretend to show. Nor does it affect only the Cuban government; on the contrary, it is aimed at harming our population as a means of overthrowing the Cuban revolutionary government.
Blockade in figures vs. a Caribbean island
New York, 26 October 2022. 11,113,215 people lived in Cuba in 2021, according to official figures in the Demographic Yearbook, recently published by the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI, by its Spanish initials).
Our island has an area of 109,884.01 km²; barely the size of the states of Tennessee or Virginia; and well below Alaska or California.
How does the U.S. government's blockade affect a small and developing nation?
Six decades after the blockade: its essence prevails as the core of the White House's policy against Cuba
New York, 25 October 2022. On 3 February 1962, exactly 60 years ago, the then President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, imposed an "embargo" on all trade between the United States and Cuba in compliance with section 620 (a) of the Foreign Assistance Act. This proclamation would go down in history as Presidential Proclamation 3447 and would officially begin the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.