On Friday afternoon, the president made statements to a team of journalists from the Presidency, after concluding an assessment meeting on the preliminary damage caused by the incident at the Saratoga hotel, which took place at the Palace of the Revolution (Excerpts)
May 7, 2022 00:05:46
On Friday afternoon, the president made statements to a team of journalists from the Presidency, after concluding an assessment meeting on the preliminary damage caused by the incident at the Saratoga hotel, which took place at the Palace of the Revolution.
After the event – he said – all the conditions were created for the rescue forces, the forces of internal order, the medical institutions to work, in order to help the injured and recover the bodies of the deceased.
During all this time – he added – we have been “focused on caring for people.
CANNOT BE REPEATED
A rigorous investigation is being carried out, added the Head of State, which will take a few days to determine the causes of this event and take the necessary measures.
"I think the work has been organized, but what has happened is unfortunate, the level of destruction, especially the loss of human lives, and also the injured people, but once again I want to highlight the speed with which the population was mobilized, with which the institutions were mobilized, the solidarity that has prevailed».
The president highlighted the altruistic character of our population, which, in response to the call for blood donations, has given a response, mainly young students, workers from different sectors, who have gone to support families who are going through a difficult time.
THE TRUTH IN THE PRESS
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party also highlighted the work of the media that has been giving coverage to the Saratoga incident. The press reported immediately, that also helped, first, for the people to know the reality, and, on the other hand, to dismantle the attacks that were initiated by the counterrevolution, he affirmed.
Given the event, Díaz-Canel denounced, “counterrevolutionary sites, especially on digital networks, anti-Cuban media, people who have an anti-Cuban platform on the networks, began to speculate on the issue, that if it was a terrorist attack, (and they said it) almost even with a little joy, which also says a lot about that perversity and that evil that exists, because no one – much less because it is a terrorist attack – can be happy or celebrate that there are loss of lives human”.