[News] Cuba Pres. speaks to Al Mayadeen on Gaza, Resistance, world economy

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Cuba Pres. speaks to Al Mayadeen on Gaza, Resistance, world economy
Al Mayadeen English
March 20, 2024
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Miguel Diaz-Canel reaffirms to Al Mayadeen Cuba's steadfast support for the
Palestinian people on the sidelines of the Patria Colloquium in Havana.
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   - The head Al Mayadeen Espanol Wafika Ibrahim awards Cuban President
   Miguel Diaz-Canel a symbolic Palestinian Koufiyyeh during the PATRIA
   International Colloquium in Havana, Cuba, on March 19, 2024. *(Al
   Mayadeen)*

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that Israeli actions in the Gaza
Strip amount to a "brutal genocide", stressing that the demands of the
public must be listened to and that the genocide must be stopped.

Diaz-Canel made the remarks during an interview for *Al Mayadeen* on the
sidelines of the Patria International Colloquium in the Cuban capital,
Havana.

"Cuba cannot abandon its condemnation and denunciation of what is happening
in the Gaza Strip," the Cuban President stressed, noting that "history will
condemn those who participate in the war and genocide there
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cuban-president-backs-lula-s-comments-on-gaza-genocide>
."

The Palestinian people "do not deserve what is happening to them," he
stated, stressing that "everyone should raise their voices and find
solutions to this genocide."

"The scenes depicted in pictures emerging (from Gaza) are extremely harsh,
and this reaffirms our convictions in support of the Palestinian people and
their cause. The Palestinians can always count on Cuba for this support,"
he added.
Devious US empire prevents peace

"Acting with this deviance and criminality in order to determine the fate
of peoples can only be compatible with the philosophy and intellect of a
corrupt society and a corrupt empire like the United States empire, which
considers [every region] as its backyard," Diaz-Canel told *Al Mayadeen*.

"This policy will not change as long as the empire exists and as long as
capitalism exists, as [the two are] completely consistent with their
convictions and their expression of hegemony," he explained.

"They want to change people's minds and separate them from their
identities, from their worries, and from their dreams," the head of the
Cuban state said, adding, "This is the way to control the world
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/russia-s-lavrov-rebukes-western--blackmail--against-countrie>,
so they will never surrender."

*Read more: Cuba's President slams UNSC 'hypocrisy', pledges support for
Palestine
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cuba-s-president-slams-unsc--hypocrisy---pledges-support-for>*
Changes to international economic system necessary for new world

"We must first be convinced of the logic of socialist construction, the
logic of humanity, and the logic of modernity. [We must also] change the
international economic system and put an end to capitalism, so that there
is no empire, so that solidarity, friendship, peace, and better everything
in this world prevail, that is, in the attainable world that Fidel (Castro)
sought," Diaz-Canel told *Al Mayadeen*.

He said that the Cuban and Palestinian peoples are examples of "courage and
defiance to the logic of the Empire," referring to the US-led Collective
West.

Underlining the importance of these virtues, Diaz-Canel said that courage
and defiance "expand people's minds and award them enough confidence and
conviction to confront and resist capitalism and imperialism
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and
even overcome them."

He stressed that the fact that the Collective West has not been able to
defeat the free people of the world is "a victory in itself."

*Read more: Cuba summons US envoy to reject 'interfering conduct'
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cuba-summons-us-envoy-to-reject--interfering-conduct>*
Resistance will continue until victory is achieved

"The Palestinian people, in light of the deviant aggression, are able to
stand tall and strong and not surrender to tell others where the path to
dignity is, where the path to solutions is, and what should be done and
defended."

Concluding his interview for *Al Mayadeen*, the Cuban President extended
his salutes to Palestinian mothers, confirming that "everyone in Cuba is a
child of Palestine," asking for resistance to continue "since victory will
be ours."

*Al Mayadeen* participated in the PATRIA conference, which included more
than 200 politicians and dozens of journalists from more than 30 countries
around the world. *Al Mayadeen *set up its own designated display section
at the conference, aiming to find a new media collective based on
combatting deliberate Western disinformation of the Global South.

*Read more: Across rivers and seas, the world unites for a 'Free Palestine'
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/across-rivers-and-seas--the-world-unites-for-a--free-palesti>*
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