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Revolutionary Voices
June & July 2024
Cuba will continue to raise the banners of Peace, Solidarity & Cooperation! Exerpts of the speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the closing ceremony of the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and against imperialism, at the Palace of Conventions, on May 2, 2024, “ Year 66 of the Revolution”. Dear friends, dear friends, defenders of international solidarity; Sisters and brothers of the Cuban Revolution:
This event is taking place at a time of extreme global complexity: there are threats to world peace, war is the language used by the hegemonic powers to resolve conflicts; poverty is growing; the impact of climate change is increasing; there is a depletion of natural resources, and a growing inequality between the poor and the rich, which explains and expresses the limits to which the current International Economic Order has reached. This current International Economic Order must be changed, and this change must also be promoted through unity and solidarity. There we have the case of Palestine. In some way and on more than one occasion, we have all pointed out the dangers of the impunity with which Israel acts, thanks to the complicity and support of the U.S. Government and despite the serious risks of regionalization of the conflict in the Middle East, a serious threat to peace and international security.
We cannot be indifferent to the daily crime that for 75 years has been committed against the brotherly Palestinian people. Nothing can justify the brutal Zionist escalation of the last six months, the grave violations of International Humanitarian Law, the war crimes and crimes against humanity that have turned a tiny strip of inhabited land into a training camp for a bloodthirsty army.
Cuba has always been in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Today hundreds of Palestinian students are studying in our country, with them we have a permanent exchange, with them our people have paraded in front of the US Embassy in Cuba demanding an end to the aggression against Palestine. Long live Free Palestine! (Exclamations of: “Long live!”). Above: Cubans & international guests rally for International Workers' Day in Havana on May 1, 2024. Top right: Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel speaks at the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba in Havana on May 2, 2024.
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We also express our support for the young people who are demonstrating today in the universities of the United States and who are being repressed and brutalized by the police (Applause). Continued on page 4
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