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<p><i>This is very long summary of the presentation
with questions and answers from journalists that
Cuban President Díaz-Canel made to the nation last
night on Cuban TV. It covers all the main issues
facing the island as it prepares to open the
economy, tourism and so on, in the face of
Washington's escalating regime-change efforts. It
reviews the experiences Cuba has since Covid, both
accomplishments and remaining challenges and
concludes with a discussion of Washington's effort
to disrupt Cuba's progress in these areas. </i><br>
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<p><span><cite>Oscar Figueredo Reinaldo, Angélica Arce
Montero, Dinella García Acosta, Lisandra Fariñas
Acosta, Ania Terrero, Deny Extremera San Martín</cite></span></p>
<p>November 12, 2021<span><br>
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<p>Cuban president appears on national
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<p><span>The first secretary of the Party's Central
Committee and president of the Republic of
Cuba, <strong>Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez,
appears on national television to speak to the
Cuban people about the new normal and other
current issues. </strong><em>Cubadebate</em> broadcasts
this special intervention live through its
social networks.</span></p>
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<h3>With a people like this there is no possible
surrender</h3>
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<p><span><strong>Various criteria are issued in
relation to issues related to the reality
that the country is entering the new
normal</strong> . These issues and the
interrelationships between them, the
consensus that is being built around this
situation, were announced by the Cuban
president as the center of his appearance on
Friday night.</span></p>
<p><span>“We have lived through two years of
closures and restrictions in which we have
been faced with very difficult situations
and moments, and we have also had to regret
painful losses, but we are getting up. <strong>We
are at a time when we are controlling the
pandemic and this is opening perspectives
on how the country can resume its course,
its rhythm and its stability,</strong> ”Díaz-Canel
began his speech.</span></p>
<p><span>He recalled that at the beginning of
the confrontation with the pandemic, “we
said that this was going to be a
long-distance race. At that time, we gave in
great detail a group of situations that we
predicted would be experienced. It was also
an endurance race. <strong>If we had been a
weak people, we would have given up. But
in Cuba there is no room for
surrender. With a people like this there
is no possible surrender. </strong></span></p>
<p><span>"It is because of that spirit, effort
and shared commitment that today we can talk
about results; today we can stop to count,
to honor and acknowledge," he said.</span></p>
<p><span>Speaking of the tribute, he pointed out
that, in the first place, it must be done
“to the more than 8,270 compatriots whose
lives the pandemic took from us. I express
our condolences to family and friends. We
have all lost a loved one in this fight, but
also among all of us we got up to work so
that no one else died and, above all, that
the deaths were minimal. </span></p>
<p><span>“We must also honor those who died
investigating and providing medical
assistance in what were their trenches. To
them we dedicate the triumph of science and
health over that unknown enemy that has
already claimed more than five million lives
around the world. </span></p>
<blockquote>
<p><span>“Cuba deserves a celebration adjusted
to the new normal, but worthy of the
effort, discipline, participation and
contribution of the vast majority of our
people so that we could reach this
moment. </span></p>
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<p><span>"Everything we have faced has had, as
an additional element of great rigor, the
cruel and criminal policy of Yankee
imperialism against Cuba, which tried to
take advantage of this moment of uncertainty
to tighten all the nuts of the blockade,
defame and slander," denounced the Cuban
president.</span></p>
<p><span>"They have wanted to present us as a
failed state, as a government that could not
overcome this situation together with its
people," he added.</span></p>
<p><span>However - he continued -, as José Martí
said, "there is no bow that cuts through a
cloud of ideas." </span></p>
<p><strong>"Defending these ideas is that our
people have been overcoming and hope, lights
and paths are opened to move forward," he
stressed.</strong></p>
<p><span>He warned that “we have to be convinced
that there are no prizes for challenging an
empire. Quite the opposite. In this constant
challenge against the empire that wants to
disappear us as a nation and a Revolution,
we receive campaigns and threats,
prohibitions and punishments, and in these
conditions, we have received more: a totally
intensified blockade. </span></p>
<p><span>“Regardless of whether the blockade
persists, we are obliged to jump over it
with our own strength, efforts and with the
talent that is in the people. None of us
know more than all of us together. <strong>With
those own forces we can achieve conquests
and greatly attenuate the difficulties
caused by the blockade.</strong></span></p>
<p><span>“That is the way to defend the
homeland, what our parents left us as an
inheritance. It is not a material
inheritance or wealth, but, above all, of
commitment. An inheritance that forces us,
together, to climb mountains. Right now we
are reaching one of the peaks of those
mountains. This is a time of harvest based
on what we have sown with that effort, those
achievements and that determination, "he
said before going on to answer questions
from the journalists gathered at the Palace
of the Revolution.</span></p>
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<h3>We are vaccinated, we are immunized, let's go
now to the booster</h3>
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<p><strong>Angélica Paredes, Radio Rebelde - Can
it be said that there is currently control
of the epidemic in Cuba? What guarantees do
Cubans have that we will not have to face
other pandemic peaks as severe as those we
have experienced in recent months? </strong></p>
<p><strong>President Díaz-Canel - </strong><span>The
pandemic has not ended. We have to learn, by
controlling the pandemic, to live with it. </span></p>
<p><span>“In March 2020 we started with a very
low level of incidence, which showed us that
as we were learning from the pandemic, we
were also able to control it by updating our
protocols and introducing very innovative
biotechnological drugs. . </span></p>
<p><span>“At the end of the year and at the
beginning of January, with control of the
pandemic, we opened the border. It was the
first moment we aspired to enter the new
normal. At that time we had an influx,
especially of Cubans living abroad and
Cubans who were visiting who came from
countries where there were high levels of
transmission, and, on the other hand, a
group of tourists. </span></p>
<p><span>“The magnitude of the entry of people
who arrived at that time did not allow us to
place them all in isolation centers, as it
exceeded our capacities. Therefore, they had
to go to the home quarantine, and it must be
recognized that the measures that had been
established were not always complied with,
the home entry was not effective, and a
totally different transmission from the one
that existed began to manifest itself,
mainly due to at the entry of much more
aggressive variants of the virus, such as
delta. </span></p>
<p><strong>“This behavior was increasing to the
point that between July and September 2021
it reached very high levels, we almost
approached 10,000 daily cases. </strong></p>
<p><span>“At that stage, vaccines were being
investigated, we had asked our scientists
that we needed sovereignty in vaccines and
they were in the stages of research and
clinical trials. Later, when we began to
apply the intervention studies in groups and
communities at risk, results began to be
obtained that later facilitated the mass
vaccination of the population. </span></p>
<p><span>“With the results of the massive
vaccination and the incidence that we were
having with the immunization of the
population, <strong>in the last four or five
weeks there has been a decrease and at the
moment we are below 400 daily cases. We
are almost returning to the levels that
were in January 2021. </strong></span></p>
<p><span>“The figures began to decrease in
October, and now, almost in the middle of
November, we are well below what we had in
January, which reflects the control we have
been having of the pandemic.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>“In the same way, deaths have
been decreasing. </strong>In the same
relationship with which the cases increased
by months, so did the deaths. Between July
and September there were peaks of deaths,
and they decreased in October, already when
mass vaccination begins to take effect, and <strong>in
November we go through 31 deaths in the
days that have elapsed of the month, also
approaching the figure of January of this
year . </strong></span></p>
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<p><span>"Today, active cases in the world are
7.47% of all confirmed cases that have
been. In the area of the Americas, it is
10.89%, and in Cuba (2 074 on Thursday) it
is only 0.22% of accumulated
cases. Therefore, Cuba has better control of
the pandemic than the world and the region. </span></p>
<p><span>“<strong>Cuba has 98.92% of cases
recovered from the disease</strong>, the
Americas 86.66% and the world 90.51%. There
is a notable percentage difference that
shows the efficiency of the results that we
are having. </span></p>
<p><span>“In the world, fatality behaves at
2.01%, in the Americas at 2.44%, and in Cuba
at 0.86% and it is decreasing these days. </span></p>
<p><span>“This means that, under the same
conditions in which the pandemic has been
faced, in the case of Cuba with all the
problems that we have described and, above
all, the influence of the blockade and our
shortcomings, if we had not achieved control
of the disease with the measures applied and
the results of our vaccines and our
protocols, today, if we are guided by what
is happening in the world and the Americas,
we would have a mortality rate two to three
times higher than what we have had.</span></p>
<p><span>“In other words, <strong>we have
managed to reduce the lethality that
corresponded to us due to the behavior of
the pandemic in relation to what is
happening in the world two or three
times. </strong>I think that this is a
result that really proves the work done by
the health system, by our scientists, and
also the cooperation and participation of
all our people.</span></p>
<p><span>“Now, regardless of these results, we
are challenged to live with the
disease. Covid-19 will not disappear, there
is no forecast or scientific evidence to
guarantee that it will disappear.</span></p>
<p><span>“For almost two years we have prepared
ourselves, we have learnings. A Cuban method
based on science and innovation has been
consolidated that has allowed us to get
here, which took advantage of the
potentialities of the Innovation Committee
and the science and innovation system of the
Ministry of Public Health together with that
of BioCubaFarma, and also creating
interconnections between this innovation
system, the productive sector of goods and
services and the rest of the entities that
also participate as part of the knowledge
sector. Such is the case of the universities
that have been linked to all this. With this
we have achieved a science and innovation
management to face covid-19. </span></p>
<p><span>“You have been aware: week by week,
every Tuesday, we have a meeting with
scientists and new lights and perspectives
always appear in those meetings. Balance
sheets and analysis of the results obtained
are made and we propose new elements.</span></p>
<p><span>“ <strong>There has also been an
integrality in this work of science in the
attention to these problems.</strong>During
all this time, that management and
innovation system was first focused on
learning from the disease and establishing
the most robust sequences possible inpatient
care protocols, but we were also working to
prevent and cut transmission. We have also
had to focus on the different steps that
have led to the development of vaccines.
Studies were also carried out to improve the
quality of life of those who have been
convalescing and we had to make a projection
based on the attention to this problem in
vulnerable people, in vulnerable communities
and in our children. It has been a whole
sequence of work that has given us strength,
but it has also been a learning process. </span></p>
<p><span>“One of the most remarkable things that
today undoubtedly constitutes an element of
national pride is the sovereignty that our
vaccines gave us. <strong>We already have a
complete vaccination of more than 70% of
our population. More than 90% have at
least one dose and we continue, we
continue. </strong></span></p>
<p><span>“I was looking at some statistics,
which I review weekly, offered by a site
called The world in data. One of the
statistics it presents is vaccination by
country and there we have seen how Cuba
evolves and is increasing in places with
respect to the world in terms of the fully
vaccinated population.</span></p>
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<p><span>“Let us remember that we, due to the
limitations we have had, had to start
designing our vaccines. Therefore, <strong>we
entered vaccination perhaps at a slightly
later stage than other countries with
money to pay for vaccines and that were
favored in some international mechanisms.</strong> We
had first the entire research process and
all the phases that it takes to develop our
vaccines, to make sure that they had the
possibilities of being taken to mass
vaccination.</span></p>
<p><span>"What is happening now? Here I compared
the place where Cuba was three days ago in
percent of the population fully vaccinated,
and we were in 33rd place. <strong>We are
growing at a more or less weekly
vaccination rate of 4.4% each week.</strong> However,
the last countries that we surpassed and
those that we are closest to surpassing are
only growing in a range between 0.3% to no
more than 2%. Therefore, we are taking
advantage of all that vaccination effort at
the country level and that in the coming
days will have very favorable results, as
the vaccination of children is completed and
we are beginning to vaccinate the cases that
have been affected by the illness. </span></p>
<p><span>“There are other elements that have
given us strengths. Molecular studies
laboratories have been created in all the
country's provinces and in the special
municipality of Isla de la Juventud. When
the pandemic started, we only had three such
labs. In addition, innovative drugs have
been developed, drugs that already had
results in the treatment of other diseases
in the conditions of the pandemic have been
applied, and equipment and devices created
in the urgency of the pandemic have also
been designed, manufactured and used. </span></p>
<p><span>“For example, when we foresee that
there would be a crisis in the intensive
care rooms due to the number of cases that
reached a critical or serious stage and that
in the world they had us blocked and no one
sold us lung ventilators, Cuban scientists
and also the sector productive state in
relation to the non-state sector found
answers and there were designs of lung
ventilators that have already been produced
in the order of hundreds of units, which are
beginning to give us sovereignty in that
sense. </span></p>
<p><span>“Together these are the results that
allow us to move towards that new normal
that we are talking about today, but the
only guarantee of keeping a situation under
control is our behavior, it is the
responsibility that we are able to share
from the individual, the familiar, the
social, the institutional, the collective
and at the level of our entire nation. That
we know how to rise to the challenge of
moving to the new normal and that this
allows us to resume the life of the country
from each one of us, from our families, from
our children, in current conditions, safely
and sustainably.</span></p>
<p><span>“<strong>We have Cuban vaccines that
have demonstrated their effectiveness,
progress has been made in immunization and
control of the epidemic is much more than
evident. </strong>In the midst of this
situation, as in the hardest days of the
pandemic, we will continue to cooperate with
the world, but we have to have a control
that starts from all our consciousness and
responsibility on this issue. </span></p>
<p><span>“A few days ago we recognized the
creators of the vaccines, yesterday the
University of Havana awarded the </span><em><span>honorary
degree</span></em><span> to Dr. Vicente
Vérez, an important leader in the creation
team of Soberana, but I think we also owe
him an award for heroism and dignity of the
Cuban people. </span></p>
<p><span>“We are vaccinated, we are immunized,
we are now going to the reinforcement; We
have more experience, we have learned, there
is a robust work system, there are results
and, furthermore, we are talking about a
desire to improve ourselves also from the
things that did not go well. We have already
proposed orienting some of these scientific
sessions to enter not only on the issues of
the pandemic, but on the other problems that
our health system has to face and improve.</span></p>
<p><span>“We have learned, but we cannot trust
or relax. <strong>The challenge of opening
the borders, of being able to open
ourselves to the arrival of family and
friends, to tourists, and also to the end
of the year festivities, to celebrate the
triumph of the Revolution that are
approaching, we have to do it with all
responsibility. </strong>We are more
prepared than what happened at the end of
the year, because we have immunization, we
have vaccines and we are going to the
reinforcement, but we must support all that
result with great responsibility so as not
to back down and to do it safely. Those are
the two elements to highlight: we are
controlling the pandemic, but we have to,
responsibly, coexist with the pandemic to
avoid a pandemic outbreak ”.</span></p>
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<h3>Worldwide there is a tendency to go to doses
of reinforcements</h3>
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<p><strong>Thalía González, Information System
of Cuban Television - You have spoken on the
subject of vaccines, national pride. It is a
topic that is talked about a lot today in
our homes, schools, communities, and there
is a question associated with the topic of
reinforcement. This booster vaccination
process begins in the country when the
entire population is not yet immunized,
although we know that the level of
immunization is high. Many Cubans wonder if
this anticovid-19 vaccination scheme that
Cubans have is not enough, why is this
reinforcement coming?</strong></p>
<p><strong>President Díaz-Canel– </strong><span>We
have to address several elements and the
combination of them is what will not lead to
the answer and the conviction of why we
should do it and how much is insufficiency
or a capacity for sustainability in what we
are doing.</span></p>
<p><span>“First, we cannot forget that the
development of vaccination in Cuba was a
system that had stages. It began with a
stage of scientific research to arrive at
the creation of vaccines; afterwards, he
went to the necessary clinical trials to
verify its safety; then we move on to the
intervention study. With the results of this
and the approval of Cecmed, we were able to
go to interventions in risk groups and
territories. And with the results of the
latter, we entered into mass vaccination.</span></p>
<p><span>“Therefore, <strong>we have Cuban men
and women vaccinated at different times.</strong> Vaccination
was not done all at once for the entire
population, so there are people who have
been vaccinated for more than four, five
months, perhaps some will reach six months.
Others are in stages closer to this time,
they have not completed the schedules, so
the distribution of vaccination is not
uniform over time.</span></p>
<p><span>“According to world trends in
scientific research at this time, several
countries, with the appearance of more
aggressive strains, have carried out studies
that determine important booster doses for
their vaccines to maintain high immunization
levels. <strong>The time varies depending on
the effectiveness of the different
vaccines - I mean those from other
countries, because ours acted and we
vaccinated people in the presence of very
aggressive strains and demonstrated
effectiveness.</strong></span></p>
<p><span>“That is not a situation exclusive to
the anti-covid vaccines. We know that there
are many vaccines, even within Cuban
vaccination campaigns, that are reactivated
from time to time.</span></p>
<p><strong>“Therefore, worldwide there is a
tendency to go to doses of reinforcements
for everything that I explained to them.</strong></p>
<p><span>“What considerations have Cuban
scientists made and shared with us last
Tuesday? They argue that the effectiveness
of Cuban vaccines has been demonstrated, it
has been proven that there are high levels
of antibodies from vaccination, which are
prolonged with much higher levels up to
between six and eight months after being
vaccinated. But they argue that, taking into
account international trends, our
effectiveness, that we cannot go back and
that we have people vaccinated at different
moments in time, it is important then to go
with booster doses.</span></p>
<p><span>“Although there is a part of the
population that we have not finished, but we
would start with those who have been
vaccinated with the full scheme for the
longest time. We can do it because we have
our vaccines, because they showed that they
are safe and have given us immunity, and now
we want to prolong that immunization to
avoid reaching pandemic outbreaks. There is
a whole group of possibilities, of variants,
of booster doses that the scientists
explained and demonstrated very well in that
scientific session. <strong>From the raw
vaccination, that is, if you were
vaccinated first with Abdala or Soberana,
how can you supplement the booster dose
using Abdala or Soberana 01, which is one
of those that is giving very good results
in the studies that are being carried out
over booster doses.</strong></span></p>
<p><span>"Let us also remember that we are still
developing the clinical trials and tests of
a fifth vaccine candidate, Mambisa, which
also has very good prospects and whose
previous results, which are not yet
complete, give a very good chance of being
used. as a booster dose. Mambisa can be
applied at the nasal level.</span></p>
<p><span>“With all these potentialities, taking
into account international trends,
scientific studies and our desire not to go
backwards, it is justified to go to the
booster doses.</span></p>
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<h3>If a tourist wants to get vaccinated, they can
do it</h3>
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<p><strong>Arleen Rodríguez Derivet, </strong><strong><em>Roundtable</em></strong><strong>:
–President, you were speaking at that
magnificent CIGB facility that was
inaugurated in Mariel a few days ago that
gives a lot of hope regarding the production
of vaccines and I think that when they began
to talk about Cuban vaccines and their
effectiveness, many in the world said that
they would come to make tourism to Cuba to
get vaccinated. Is this possibility
contemplated that the vaccination can be
applied to tourists whenever they demand it?
And, furthermore, are there any real
possibilities for recovery in this sector
that energizes the rest of the Cuban
economy?</strong></p>
<p><strong>President Díaz-Canel - </strong><span>Your
question focuses on the economy and on the
role of reviving our economy in this
situation of a new normal to which we are
advancing. First, I would recognize the
enormous effort that the country has had to
make in all this time and that, in the midst
of such a complex economic situation, Cuba
turned to saving lives, first and foremost.</span></p>
<p><span>“At the beginning of covid-19, we
honestly exposed the complexity of the
situation. <strong>From that moment, we
anticipated that the country was going to
decrease its income levels, so we were
going to have a shortage.</strong> We
announced that tourism was going to be
paralyzed, that we were not going to receive
the tourism income that we had at other
times. We reached more than four and a half
million tourists in one year. We were
talking about the contraction that there
would be in foreign investment, in our
exports and imports; the difficulties we
were going to have with production
processes, which were going to slow down the
processes of the economy and services,
including tourism.</span></p>
<p><span>“In these exceptional conditions that
the economy has gone through, <strong>the
country stopped receiving more than 3
billion dollars in a year and a half of
income. </strong>It would be necessary to
see what things would be different today if
we had counted on that income.</span></p>
<p><span>“But, in addition, <strong>the little
income that we received we had to dedicate
an important part precisely to saving
lives, and more than 300 million dollars
have been dedicated to cover insurance
costs in the fight against covid.</strong></span></p>
<p><span>“In the midst of that, we have
expressed all the will to continue proposing
actions that complement the economic and
social strategy that was designed to face
the economic crisis, a crisis that is
multidimensional, multifactorial and is
global.</span></p>
<p><span>“Now, with this entry into the new
normal, <strong>undoubtedly our economy will
recover, and it will also do so under
conditions of new capacities</strong>,
because, in the midst of all these
circumstances, we have approved the new
economic actors.</span></p>
<p><span>“The approval of the new forms of
management, both state and non-state, and,
therefore, that network of state and
non-state forms of management is flowing at
a good pace, sooner rather than later. It
will also give a dynamic in the offers of
services and goods to our population.</span></p>
<p><span>“<strong>But in this economic recovery,
tourism plays a fundamental role</strong>,
because tourism also pulls the rest of the
economy. It is that concept of the
locomotive of the economy, which will now
have more potential because it will link
more forms of management, both state and
non-state.</span></p>
<p><span>“And we also have to see what we have
already stopped perceiving because tourism
has been contracted in these pandemic
conditions.</span></p>
<p><span>“I always say in a trivial way that
tourism is the economic activity that sounds
like a counter every day in the country, and
when we have income from tourism, the
country has more air, more oxygen to advance
the economy. Not for pleasure the Empire has
attacked it, as one of the economic
activities in which they know that they
cause us affectations.</span></p>
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<p><span>“In the midst of this situation, we
have to recognize that in the economy,
having less income, the demand of the
population is less covered; <strong>By
having an illegal foreign exchange market,
which is also causing an exchange rate
much higher than the official one, it has
caused an inflation phenomenon</strong>,
for which studies are being carried out, and
we are also going to overcome that
challenge.</span></p>
<p><span>"In these conditions of the new normal,
and with all the preparation that has been
done, <strong>we are expecting there to be a
greater arrival of tourists than we had
initially predicted in the midst of this
situation. </strong></span></p>
<p><span>“Today, the way tour operators, travel
agencies, and airlines are moving, tell us
that <strong>from the 15th we will have
flight sequences that exceed fifty weekly
flights</strong>, and this will be
increased during the month of November, and
it will have higher levels in December and
January.</span></p>
<p><span>“In the remainder of the year, <strong>we
must receive almost 50% of what we have
received in all this year in pandemic
conditions. </strong>Therefore, there is
an immediate increase, we predict that, but
not an immediate recovery of tourist
activity, because remember, we had figures
of almost 4.5 million tourists, but it is a
good start, above the expectations we have
with the contraction that the world economy
is having, and the difficult situation that
the covid still generates in a group of
countries that are the origin of tourism to
Cuba.</span></p>
<p><span>“In the middle of that, <strong>if a
tourist wants to get vaccinated, they
can. </strong>There are all the designs
and, even, the tourist or visitor who
arrives in Cuba for a long time and wants to
be vaccinated, will have all the follow-up
to complete the scheme.</span></p>
<p><span>“To those who cannot complete the
scheme due to the time they are in the
country, and the intervals from one dose to
the other, their first dose is applied, and
the rest are carried by them with all the
indications, the method and possibilities.
of your follow-up.</span></p>
<p><span>“In fact, they have already announced
to us that there are groups of tourists who
come precisely with the aim of, in addition
to staying in Cuba, getting vaccinated and
taking advantage of the security offered by
Cuban vaccines.</span></p>
<p><span>“Yesterday, the prime minister, Marrero
Cruz, made a tour of the airports to see how
the campaign is being prepared. Also in
those days, the Government has followed the
elements of logistics insurance for tourism.</span></p>
<p><span>"During this time tourism was not
stopped, there were low levels of tourism,
but work was being done on the recovery of
the hotel plant and there was a tremendous
effort to recover capacities, create better
conditions in hotels, and that allows us
tourists to Those who arrive in Cuba will
find a country in peace, a country of
solidarity, a beautiful and endearing
island, a friendly people and they will be
able to appreciate a Cuba that lives and
where it is lived safely.</span></p>
<p><span>"These issues in which we have been
relating the economy, tourism, vaccines in
covid and new normal conditions, will be
treated in a more detailed way next week in
another press appearance, in which the Prime
Minister, Manuel Marrero will be present.
Cross; the Vice Prime Minister and Minister
of Economy and Planning, Alejandro Gil, and
another group of ministers and
representatives of institutions linked to
economic issues.</span></p>
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<h3>Work in the neighborhoods is here to stay and
we have to make it sustainable</h3>
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<p><strong>Alina Perera, </strong><strong><em>Juventud
Rebelde</em></strong><strong> –In recent
months we have seen a rebirth of community
work, there has been a strong movement, for
example, in more than 60 neighborhoods of
Havana, which were in need of
transformation. The idea has spread to other
parts of the country, and only hours ago you
were in the provinces of Guantánamo and
Granma, and there, too, journalists were
able to see how communities are being
transformed and accumulated problems are
solved. </strong></p>
<p><strong>You said in the East that these
transformations must be made sustainable and
systematic, and that even this work with the
neediest neighborhoods is here to stay. How
to achieve that sustainability and that
systematicity?</strong></p>
<p><strong>President Díaz-Canel - </strong><span>I
know that there are dissatisfactions at
work, that there have been times of rise and
less intensity at work in the neighborhoods,
but when the problem of the neighborhoods is
addressed, we cannot fail to recognize that
in between all times, there have been
leaders of community projects that have
remained stable, and that have been niches
of experience and work in relation to the
neighborhoods.</span></p>
<p><span>“That was what I felt in one of the
first meetings we had with representatives
of social sectors, which was with the
leaders of community projects, in San
Isidro, and there we learned a lot for all
this work that we have been trying to
intensify and promote.</span></p>
<p><span>“The sustainability of this work will
be to the extent that we are consolidating
ourselves in a whole group of concepts that
we are defending with this work. First, <strong>we
are defending the exercise of popular
power as part of our political system in
the socialist construction</strong>, which
happens through moments in which citizens
can debate, raise their concerns,
aspirations and propose solutions.</span></p>
<p><span>“That there is a moment in which these
proposals can be implemented, and that there
is also a third moment through which there
is accountability and popular control over
what is done.</span></p>
<p><span>“If we see that from how everything is
organized at the level of our political
system, we must give a fundamental role to
the delegates of the People's Power, who are
representatives of the people, because then
the people would participate directly and
also indirectly through the management of
the delegate, the management of the
commissions and the management of the
Municipal Assemblies of People's Power.</span></p>
<p><span>“<strong>The neighbors are having the
capacity to, within so many problems that
exist, that we cannot solve at the same
time, define priorities. </strong>That
which the neighbors propose, is represented
by their delegate in the Municipal Assembly,
and this, based on the possibilities of
resources that it has, approves the
priorities that will be worked on, that
returns to the neighborhood, people go
working and thus they are perfected, doing
popular control and we get feedback on the
results. </span></p>
<p><span>“If we do it that way, there is
sustainability and it goes through that
concept of popular power, well supported by
elements of democracy and popular
participation, which turns the
beneficiaries, who are the neighbors, into
protagonists of the change and
transformation that they are having. in the
neighborhood.</span></p>
<p><span>“On the other hand, as we needed a
boost, because the pandemic also paralyzed
processes like these of work in the
neighborhoods, <strong>we have asked that
public institutions, state institutions,
companies in each territory and, in the
case of Havana, organizations of the
Central State Administration, participate
in this process.</strong></span></p>
<p><span>“That begins to give us an element of
construction of social responsibility that
the entire institutional system, all
economic actors, must have, from the
responsibility of a public institution
located in a neighborhood - for example,
with the issue of sustainable development of
that neighborhood. , the protection of the
environment, the work in function of the
community–, but it is also building a
sensitivity in these institutions, groups of
workers and leaders, about the problems of
the neighborhood.</span></p>
<p><span>“And if we start from sensitivity,
undoubtedly there will also be a more
intense and more intentional projection
towards the neighborhood. Therefore, <strong>it
is not about intervening in the
neighborhood, it is about respecting what
the neighborhood proposes</strong>, and
supporting and helping the
neighborhood. Accompany all that
transformation process, and all that, then,
we have to support it, for the purpose of
making it sustainable, with what we are
designing now and that there is a group of
academics and experts working on these
issues.</span></p>
<p><span>“First, <strong>we have to decentralize
a group of powers to the municipalities,
so that they can exercise the autonomy of
government recognized by the Constitution.</strong></span></p>
<p><span>“We also have to give a new approach to
municipal budgets so that in the
municipalities, the budget contains
resources that facilitate not only working
with a sample of neighborhoods, as we are
doing now, but also extending actions to all
neighborhoods, and that all this be
connected with the territorial development
strategies that have been approved with the
local development projects and the
strengthening of the local productive
systems. And there we are also proposing a
business resizing, which will encourage more
state companies to have municipal
subordination, so that the municipality can
have state entities and non-state economic
actors that can chain and work according to
the development of the municipality.</span></p>
<p><span>"We can also include all this in that
the political practice with which we have to
work in the neighborhoods is to <strong>do
politics with the concepts of doing
politics in the Revolution</strong> , with
what Hart defined, based on the experience
of Marti's thought and the
Commander-in-Chief, who is a combination of
ideology, science, ethics in political
practice.</span></p>
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<p><span>"<strong>Work in the neighborhoods is
here to stay and we have to make it
sustainable</strong>, articulating all
these elements and with the conviction that,
although there are many problems that we
cannot solve all at once, yes every day we
will tear each piece to pieces. one of those
problems.</span></p>
<blockquote>
<p><span>“It is essential to strengthen the
avenues of participation, which is the
only thing that will make this Revolution
sustainable in the communities, and to
extend it to the entire country.</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p><span>“In recent days we invited all the
first secretaries of the Provincial
Committees of the Party and they
participated in the experience of La Timba,
they shared with the population, and then we
had a debate on that experience and on what
they had been doing in the province.</span></p>
<p><span>“Now this month we are already leading
visits to the provinces, such as the ones we
started yesterday in Guantánamo and Granma,
where one of the elements that we are
appreciating is how work is being done in
the neighborhoods.</span></p>
<p><span>“It must be said that in the provinces
we also have popular participation in the
neighborhoods. We saw him yesterday in
Cecilia, in Guantánamo, and in Pedro Pompa,
in Bayamo.</span></p>
<p><span>“We also see the spirit that is created
among the neighbors, the levels of
participation, and popular control is very
important. It is the people controlling what
is done, so that everything is with
quality. If we let things go wrong, the
responsibility lies with the neighbors
themselves.</span></p>
<p><span>“Therefore, it is to consolidate
experiences that are already within the
Revolution, it is to turn exceptions into
rules, and it is a more direct, intentional
attention towards people who are at a
disadvantage, towards those who have some
type of vulnerability, and that It shows
that the strength of the Revolution is in
the neighborhoods.</span></p>
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<h3>Permanence and systematic</h3>
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<p><strong>Hector Martínez, Cuban Television
Information System - I wanted to refer to
the exchanges that you have had with various
sectors of society in recent months, which
have undoubtedly had a great impact on
Cubans. Is this practice going to be
maintained over time? Has some type of work
system been designed that allows the
opinions gathered in these meetings not to
become a dead letter?</strong></p>
<p><strong>President Díaz-Canel </strong><span>–These
recent exchanges with different sectors of
society have been very useful, but I want to
point out that it is not something new. We
had also been carrying out an intense system
of visits with the participation of the
entire Government to the provinces, and in
those tours we had exchanges with
universities, students and professors, the
scientific sector, the artistic sector, the
press, and also the times of pandemic caused
a breakup.</span></p>
<p><span>“But, undoubtedly, in a renewed way as
you recognize, we have returned to this
practice, and we have done it with a broader
perspective, of participation and
contribution.</span></p>
<p><span>“In a few months we have had meetings
with representatives of economists, jurists,
businessmen, journalists, federated women,
self-employed workers, artists, young
people, community and religious leaders,
farmers, scientists, athletes and also with
people from the LGBTIQ + community. … <strong>They
have all been very revealing and very
committed.</strong></span></p>
<p><span>“We have everything documented, and
both the leadership of the Party and the
Government are constantly updated on what is
coming out in each of these meetings, and in
the very spaces of the work system we are
monitoring how responses are given to the
proposals of these encounters, therefore
that is already in a working system, which
is a part of your question.</span></p>
<p><span>“And I think it <strong>is</strong> already <strong>evident
that many of the things that have been
raised we have begun to implement.</strong> For
example, the transformations that we made in
some of the planning approaches that were
related to agricultural production, and the
improvement that we made with the 63
measures to promote and stimulate food
production and marketing, have to do with
the contributions that we had in two
meetings with agricultural producers.</span></p>
<p><span>“The lawyers addressed two fundamental
issues: how to improve our regulatory
creation process and how to deepen the issue
of legal advice. <strong>We have already
introduced changes in the normative
creation process and we have incorporated
many of the principles that were raised in
the process to arrive at the Family Code.</strong> Version
22 of the Family Code, without being yet a
preliminary draft or the final document that
was to be presented to the National Assembly
before reaching its approval and popular
consultation, began to circulate with a long
time to collect opinions from the
population.</span></p>
<p><span>“Therefore, of that version 22 there
are already new versions that incorporate
new elements that are part of the normative
creation, and it is the document that will
be taken to the approval of the National
Assembly, and then continue with that
process.</span></p>
<p><span>“<strong>The meeting with the LGBTIQ +
community gave us, based on their life
stories, a lot of knowledge and
recognition of issues that we have to
address from another social point of view</strong>,
which have to be with social policy content,
including some elements that have to be
contained for treatment in the Family Code.</span></p>
<p><span>“The meeting with the academics of the
Cuban Academy of Sciences, immediately took
as an agreement that every month we were
going to have a meeting with the Cuban
Academy of Sciences, as a consultative body
that can contribute much to us on various
issues that it has. the country, and in fact
next Monday we have a meeting again.</span></p>
<p><span>"That is to say, all this is being
followed up and it is not really going to be
a dead letter, and we must recognize the
contribution that these sectors have
had. For example, the meeting with
university students who participated in
important tasks during the covid gave us
elements of deficiencies that we had in the
health system, but they proposed
projects; for example, one of
computerization of the Cujae to improve the
management of investments in a health
institution. All this, with permanence and
systematicity, is being followed.</span></p>
</div>
<h3>In peace, in the present and in the future,
Cuba lives and will live</h3>
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<p><strong>Wilmer Rodríguez, Cuban Television
Information System - My question is focused
on the challenges and the future of the
nation and of the Cuban Revolution. There
are those who think these days that next
November 15 will create a difficult
situation in the country. Looking at the
country towards future challenges, I would
like your opinion from your position as
first secretary of the Party and president
of the Republic, but also as a Cuban, as a
man who knows, who has traveled, who knows,
who comes from the base, who know the
country we live in.</strong></p>
<p><strong>President Díaz-Canel - </strong><span>One
observes that there is a whole media
intention and that it transcends the media,
it is part of an imperial strategy to try to
destroy the Revolution. They have tried to
construct events by date: they tried to test
July 11, now they propose to make
provocations around November 15; They have
raised a whole media halo so that the world
can wait for what will happen in Cuba on
November 15. I don't think that even that
takes away our sleep, we are calm, safe, but
attentive and alert, and we are prepared to
defend the Revolution, to confront any
interventionist action against our country,
especially against everything that threatens
peace, the citizen tranquility and our
constitutional order.</span></p>
<p><span>“But, more than that, we are going to
focus on the future. I think we have to see
the future from the present, from this very
present that we are now going to live with
the return to normality. There is the fact
that the results that we are having in the
confrontation with the covid - due to
vaccines, for everything we have explained -
allow us to resume the economic and social
life of Cubans and Cubans, that the economy
begins to revive, that Let's open the doors
to tourism, let the school year begin with
all its enthusiasm, joy and color (you have
to see how the children in Guantánamo told
us yesterday how eager they were to go back
to school); that today we are inaugurating
the Havana Biennial, an important cultural
event that they also wanted to massacre us;
the fact that, in the midst of all this
situation,We were able to start up a
high-tech biotechnological facility such as
the CIGB-Mariel center, which we recently
inaugurated, in the company of the Army
General and the Prime Minister; the efforts
that are being made in the preparation of
the sugar harvest, in the implementation of
the measures that we have approved for
autonomy and business improvement, in the
application of measures to improve the
production and marketing of food, the
application of a system of government
management based on science and innovation
that, with the experience of confronting the
covid-19, is being transferred as experience
to other areas and in all the organizations
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<p><span>“We have taken this management system
to fundamental activities such as the energy
issue in the country, food production, in
different issues, which opens up potential.</span></p>
<p><span>“Today jurists, experts, academics,
scientists are linked to all the development
programs that the country is carrying out,
to the management of laws and legal norms in
its process of creating regulations so that
they emerge robust.</span></p>
<p><strong>“This Palace is constantly an in and
out of academics, scientists, experts, who
come here to make their contribution to a
group of programs and processes.</strong></p>
<p><span>"The way in which we have made the
economic and strategic planning of the
economic and social development of the
country, taking as macro-program the
strategic axes of the National Economic
Development Plan, taking these
macro-programs to projects, in which
scientific institutions, experts and
academics.</span></p>
<p><span>“The fact that we are developing a very
intense legislative process, faithful to
what the National Assembly approved. In the
last legislature, the assembly approved four
laws that in the matter of defense of the
rights of the people are very advanced; Now
we go to the debate on the Family Code,
which can put before us a very inclusive
code that respects rights and multiplies
participation.</span></p>
<p><span>“All these are a group of elements that
from this presentation that we are
generating allow us to say that the future
of the country is a future of hope, a future
of prosperity, and it is a future of
Revolution.</span></p>
<p><span>“<strong>Cuba is a nation of peace. </strong>We
are rebels, we are dissatisfied, we do not
tolerate what is badly done, we make
adequate criticism and we will have to do
more criticism of everything we do wrong
where there is a space of mediocrity; but we
are, above all, a nation of peace, a nation
of solidarity, of friendship. And that
nation defends a project that is a genuine
socialist revolution, which is not
clandestine in power.</span></p>
<p><span>“On the contrary, it is constantly
renewing itself, constantly improving
itself, constantly with the will to do what
is best for the people, based on the
participation of the people. <strong>We are
a revolution aware that its example makes
those who oppose it uncomfortable</strong> and
therefore we are a revolution that would not
survive, and we have to be clear about that,
to the error of neglecting its defenses.</span></p>
<p><span>“That is why also in this presentation
of the new normal we are going to the
Moncada Exercise, we are going to the
Defense Day, but as a genuine element of
popular participation, also in the
preparation that we have to have and
strengthen to maintain our sovereignty and
independence.</span></p>
<p><span>“<strong>We are a society open to
dialogue, debate, to the improvement of
our society</strong>, we have an enormous
desire to continue expanding our democracy,
the spaces for debate, the participation of
our citizens in terms of the Revolution. But
we are a society closed to pressure, closed
to blackmail, to foreign interference.</span></p>
<p><span>“From that present that envisages the
future to which we are going to arrive, Cuba
lives and it is not a miracle. Cuba is
living because its children want it and each
one of us is responsible for building the
future of the Cuba to which we aspire. Cuba
also cooperates with those who have the
least, Cuba saves lives and not only feels
the responsibility and commitment to
solidarity, but we also have an enthusiasm
for sharing our knowledge to also help those
who need it most in the world.</span></p>
<p><span>“<strong>Our currency is peace.</strong> It
is raised by the Army General two congresses
of the Party, that peace together with the
ideological battle and the economic battle
are our priorities. Peace and citizen
security are strongholds that distinguish us
in the midst of a global environment that is
increasingly aggressive and insecure. We, as
part of that future, will take care of peace
as we take care of our children.</span></p>
<p><span>“In peace, we have achieved the first
Latin American vaccines, in peace we have
immunized almost one hundred percent of our
population, including our children; In
peace, the schools work, and in peace, we
will begin on the 15th another stage of the
school year; in peace, our economy will
recover; in peace, we will continue
advancing with the economic and social
strategy; calm, attentive and safe. <strong>In
peace, in the present and in the future,
Cuba lives and will live</strong> ”.</span></p>
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