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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Cubans Demand Respect for Sovereignty & Self-Determination With Which They Decided to Build Socialism</h1>July 13, 2021</div>
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<p>Cuba demanded that its sovereignty and self-determination be
respected, “with which we have decided to build socialism,” said the
president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, during a press conference
offered this Monday, July 12, in a joint television and radio broadcast,
joined by members of his government, regarding the situation in the
country facing a US blockade and destabilization attempts that occurred
over the weekend.</p>
<p>“The OAS (Organization of American States) has been empowered and
trained to play its role in unconventional warfare. Why hasn’t it been
concerned about the negative effects of the blockade on Cubans?” asked
the president.</p>
<p>The Cuban Revolution, he warned, is not going to turn the other cheek
to those who attack it in virtual and real spaces. “We will avoid
revolutionary violence, but we will repress counterrevolutionary
violence,” said Díaz-Canel. “Whoever attacks law enforcement officers
attacks the country. The counterrevolution dreams of a war between
Cubans. We are not going to indulge them. We will come out of this with
unity, discipline, and work.”</p>
<p>Díaz-Canel stressed that “our actions in the streets are against
those who promote disorder with an interventionist agenda, manipulating
the sentiments of the people faced with shortcomings and outbreaks of
COVID-19.”</p>
<p><strong>Cuba rejects media siege<br>
</strong>On Monday, the President of Cuba rejected the media siege
against the government’s management of the pandemic, and the narratives
that encourage disunity in the country. In addition,
Díaz-Canel condemned those who encourage provocations to destabilize the
internal order of the island.</p>
<p>Likewise, he accused the government of the President of the United
States, Joe Biden, of intensifying the measures against the island, and
preventing the purchase of fuel and the equipment necessary for the
Cuban electrical system to meet its demands.</p>
<p>One day earlier, thousands of Cubans took to the streets to express
their support for the Revolution, in response to provocations that
occurred at different places, instigated through social networks.</p>
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<p>After protests by counterrevolutionary groups this Sunday, President
Díaz-Canel assured that “they have tried to impose actions to discredit
the Government and the Revolution and to fracture the unity of the
people.”</p>
<p>Díaz-Canel specified that the people came out to defend the Revolution: “we never encouraged violence between Cubans.”</p>
<img src="https://albaciudad.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/diaz-canel.jpg" alt="" style="margin-right: 25px;" width="446" height="297">Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. Photo: Presidency of Cuba
<p>Díaz-Canel denounced the violent ideology behind the disturbances
that occurred in Cuba. He also denounced the media manipulations that
attempt to pit Cubans against each other, when in reality the people
were called upon to defend their rights.</p>
<p>Díaz-Canel said that they now intend to question the events of this
Sunday, because they allege that a call was made for a confrontation
between the Cubans: “They have already come up with [allegations] that
in Cuba we repressed, we murdered. Where are the Cuban murders? Where is
the Cuban repression? Where are the disappeared in Cuba?”</p>
<img src="https://albaciudad.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Cubanos-en-la-calle.jpg" alt="" style="margin-right: 25px;" width="446" height="297">Cuban president talking with the people in the streets. Photo: @DiazCanelB
<p>“We called on the people to defend their Revolution, and the people
went to debate, to argue, but the protesters responded with violence,
and the people defended themselves,” he said.</p>
<p>The president also asked, regarding the “famous ‘regime’ change,” who
exactly was bothered by the so-called regime? Not most of the people of
Cuba, as the majority continue to endorse the government through
thousands of public debates.</p>
<p>Díaz-Canel accused “mercenaries in the pay of the United States” of
organizing the protests on Sunday, although he admitted that citizens
“confused” by the “lack of information” about the problems facing the
country also participated.</p>
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<p><strong>Cuba makes an enormous effort to maintain electricity grid</strong><br>
For his part, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Liván Arronte Cruz,
explained that the country is making an enormous effort to maintain
electricity facilities and service for the people, in the midst of a
tense situation caused by the economic, commercial, and financial
blockade by the United States.</p>
<p>The Cuban president explained that before this, the government
decided to protect the electricity generation destined for the
population, even at the cost of having to slow down or reduce the
country’s economic activity.</p>
<p>“For more than a year and a half we have been without blackouts,
except those that occurred due to breakdowns in the distribution systems
of the electro-energy systems,” he indicated. “Only now we have entered
into a generation deficit due to the breakdown of the generation
plants.”</p>
<img src="https://albaciudad.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bruno-Rodriguez.jpg" alt="" style="margin-right: 25px;" width="446" height="297">Photo: Presidency of Cuba
<p><strong>Foreign Minister of Cuba calls on the US to confirm or deny that the State Department financed counterrevolutionaries</strong><br>
For his part, the Foreign Minister of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, called on
the government of the United States to confirm or deny that the main
political operators of the groups that generated the campaign against
Cuba have received funding from the State Department and USAID.</p>
<p>He argued that the forceful response “from our people caused the
failure of the media operation and its attempt to generate a
situation—which does not exist in Cuba—of ungovernability and social
disorder.”</p>
<p>“Cuba attracts great international support, which translates into
offers of practical support, donations from governments, international
organizations and associations of Cubans living abroad, of enormous
symbolic and moral value, that encourages the efforts of our people,”
noted Rodríguez.</p>
<p>The Head of Cuban diplomacy denounced the cynicism and hypocrisy of
the President of the United States, Joe Biden, who neglected any mention
of the US blockade as the main cause of the island’s economic
situation. He suggested that the US president listen to the calls to
eliminate the siege that has affected the families of the Antillean
nation for six decades.</p>
<p>Biden asked Havana to listen to the people and alleviate their needs,
said Rodríguez, while he maintains the “sanctions”—including 243 new
measures introduced by his predecessor, Donald Trump. Rodríguez
clarified that what happened in Cuba the day before were disturbances
caused by a communication operation to which the White House and its
agencies allocate millions, to manipulate the Cuban reality and magnify
any difficulties.</p>
<p>Rodríguez pointed out that the destabilizing actions are promoted
from abroad and carried out by mercenaries, paid to use deficiencies to
incite chaos.</p>
<p><em>Featured image: Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. Photo: Presidency of Cuba</em></p>
<p>(<a href="https://albaciudad.org/2021/07/cubanos-exigen-respeto-a-su-soberania-y-a-la-autodeterminacion-con-la-que-decidieron-construir-el-socialismo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alba Ciudad</a>)</p>
<p>Translation: Orinoco Tribune</p>
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