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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Cuban President Pays Tribute to Malcolm X in Harlem</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits"></div>By Deisy Francis Mexidor on September 19, 2023 from New York City</div><div class="gmail-content"><div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-wrapper2">
<div id="gmail-attachment_24643" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-24643" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9-20-c.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="225" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-24643" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">photo: Deisy Francis Mexidor</p></div>
<p>“We have come to honor Malcolm X and, with him, to pay tribute to our
African-American brothers and sisters, to the people of the United
States, to those who fight for justice, against exploitation and
segregation. To all those who believe, like Malcolm, that a better world
is possible.”<span id="gmail-more-24642"></span></p>
<p>These were the words last night of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel,
speaking at the Shabazz Center, located in the popular neighborhood
where Harlem and Washington Heights meet, in Upper Manhattan, to
celebrate the legacy of slain African-American leader Malcolm X.</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_24645" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-24645" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9-20-fidel-in-Harlem.jpg?resize=263%2C192&ssl=1" alt="Fidel and Malcolm X, Sept. 19, 1963" width="263" height="192" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-24645" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">Fidel and Malcolm X, Sept. 19, 1963</p></div>
<p>On a gray and rainy afternoon, which is beginning to herald the
change of season and where it is already necessary to wear light coats,
the president received all the warmth of representatives of a community
that on this September 19, 63 years ago also opened its arms to the
leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, when he held a memorable
meeting with Malcolm X.</p>
<p>For Fidel and for Cuba, Malcolm X also defied the imperial powers,
said the head of state, who affirmed that the Cuban Revolution will
never forget his role in extending the invitation to host him and his
delegation at the Theresa Hotel, in the heart of the black neighborhood
of Harlem, when there was an attempt to boycott his presence at the
United Nations in 1960.</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_24646" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-24646" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9-20c.jpg?resize=300%2C295&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="295" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-24646" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">Miguel Díaz-Canel, with Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcom X, photo: Luis de Jesus</p></div>
<p>Díaz-Canel said that it was that generous and fraternal gesture that
culminated in the historic meeting between Malcolm X and Fidel in
September of that year.</p>
<p>“Let us all honor the memory and legacy of Malcolm X, as a commitment
to those who have suffered and still suffer poverty, injustice and
exclusion, to those who have suffered and still suffer as a consequence
of colonialism, neocolonialism, imperialism, exploitation, racism,
selfishness,” he said.</p>
<p>He also thanked the people of the United States for their support in
the struggle against the blockade imposed by the U.S. government on Cuba
for more than six decades.</p>
<p>Right at the end of his speech and in the midst of the applause, there were cheers for Cuba and the Cuban Revolution.</p>
<p>Earlier, referring to the presence of Díaz-Canel at the center, Dr.
Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, said that this visit gave
continuity to an entire legacy of solidarity.</p>
<p>“My father admired Fidel Castro very much,” Shabazz said, insisting
he always admired the way he was able to free his people from the yoke
of imperialism so close to the United States.</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_24644" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-24644" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9-20-b.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="225" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-24644" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">Cuban President Díaz-Canel and Dr. Rosemarie Mealy. photo: Deisy Francis Mexidor </p></div>
<p>Dr. Rosemarie Mealy, author of the book Fidel and Malcolm X, memoir
of an encounter, said she was happy that the gathering occurred “on the
eve of the 63rd anniversary of a historic encounter that occurred just
38 blocks from here when the people of Harlem joined Malcolm X in
welcoming President Fidel Castro.”</p>
<p>“Today we come full circle in our reflections, reaffirming the
friendships and historic ties that bind our nations and our peoples,”
Mealy noted.</p>
<p>Diaz-Canel upon his arrival, accompanied by his wife Lis Cuesta, laid
a wreath to Malcolm X, and shortly before leaving he witnessed the
unveiling of a commemorative plaque and went to the place, in the same
hall, where a small podium with white flowers commemorates the place
where he was assassinated on February 21, 1965.</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_24648" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-24648" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9-20.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="200" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-24648" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">Diaz-Canel lays a wreath in the place where Malcolm X was assassinated, photo: Luis de Jesus</p></div>
<p>Among those present were former Democratic Congressman Charles
Rangel, Charles Barron, member of the New York City Council, Claudia de
La Cruz, candidate for the U.S. presidency for the Party for Socialism
and Liberation, as well as a representation of political sectors,
solidarity and local social organizations.</p>
<p>The Cuban side was represented by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs,
Bruno Rodriguez, and Public Health, Jose Angel Portal, among other
diplomatic representatives of the island’s missions in New York and
Washington DC.</p>
<p>The head of state is in his second day in New York, where he traveled
at the head of the Cuban delegation attending the High-Level Segment of
the United Nations General Assembly.</p>
<p>Díaz-Canel is also raising his voice there on behalf of the G77 and
China, whose pro tempore presidency Cuba holds until the beginning of
2024.</p>
<p>Source: Resumen Latinoamericano – English</p>
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