At the 9th Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Cuba President Miguel Díaz-Canel called for a massive march of the Cuban people to demand an end to the economic blockade that has suffocated the socialist island for more than six decades.
“In response to that design of increased hostile policy, we call from this Plenum the heroic Cuban people to a combatant march next December 20, after the Session of the National Assembly of People’s Power. We will express in front of the US Embassy in Havana, as we so often accompanied the Commander in Chief [Fidel Castro], the firmest and forceful condemnation of the criminal blockade of the US Government and the permanence of Cuba in the illegitimate list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism that causes terrible harm to all the people,” said the president.
Diaz-Canel outlined how the blockade suffocates the Cuban economy: “Aware of the difficult economic circumstances we are going through with transportation and fuel, precisely as a result of this siege that aims to contain and suffocate us, we will mobilize in the streets with the minimum use of those resources.”
Likewise, the demonstration seeks to condemn the arbitrary inclusion of Cuba in the state sponsors of terrorism list. This act further aggravates the possibilities of carrying out transactions with other countries, under penalty of these being accused of doing business with terrorists, which entails very severe sanctions.
In addition, Díaz-Canel called for strengthening the political and ideological work in the interior of the country, especially that carried out by party leaders, through “exemplarity, conviction and political firmness. Only in this way the mobilization capacity and the commitment of the people are guaranteed.”
In this way, the Communist Party of Cuba hopes to demonstrate once again on December 20 the unity of the Cuban people around the condemnation of the blockade that the United States has unilaterally imposed on Cuba, a measure that has delayed the progress of the Cuban economy and which, despite the numerous times that the United Nations General Assembly has voted to end of the blockade by an overwhelming majority, continues to be in force.
