No. 50
December 26, 2024
End Criminal U.S. Blockade of Cuba!
Half a Million People March in Havana to Demand Lifting of U.S. Blockade and Sanctions
On Friday, December 20, more than 500,000 people marched on the Malecón in Havana, the seafront boulevard, to demand that the United States government lift the inhuman blockade of Cuba and take Cuba off its list of state sponsors of terrorism. The march, which culminated with a rally in front of the U.S. embassy, took place following the 4th Regular Session of the 10th Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power.
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez led the march with Raúl Castro Ruz, Army General and historic leader of the revolution, and Yankiel Cardoso Muñoz, President of the Popular Council of Ceiba-Kolhy, at his side. Díaz-Canel condemned U.S. President Joe Biden's continued hostility toward Cuba, maintaining the measures put in place by his predecessor Donald Trump to throttle Cuba in the hopes of achieving regime change. When Díaz-Canel convoked "the heroic Cuban people to a fighting march," he recalled the words of the legendary leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, when he said, "The people of Cuba will win" and those of Raúl: "What a people we have!"
These words were manifest on the Malecón on Friday when the voices of half a million people rang out as one in front of the US Embassy.
Díaz-Canel
highlighted the arrogance of the U.S. in having Cuba on the U.S. State
Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism. He said "it is at
least false and immoral, wherever the accusation comes from, but it is
doubly so when the accusation comes from U.S. territory, where
paramilitary groups are currently training to organize, promote and
finance terrorist actions against the social and economic structures of
Cuba."
The President repeated that the people of Cuba harbour no ill-will towards the people of the United States but, he said, in the face of imperialism and its attempts to destroy our sovereignty, "we will demonstrate today, tomorrow and always."
With clenched fist, the Cuban people will face the problems, with depth and with the certainty of moving forward, Díaz-Canel emphasized. He recalled the historic battles in which the youth of Cuba and her people have responded to the call of history: the beginning of Cuba's fight for independence in 1868 in La Demajagua; the martyrdom of Martí in battle in 1895; the battles of the youth in the 1930s, all leading to the revolution launched on July 26, 1953 led by their Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro. That day, when the walls of the Moncada barracks shook, became known as the Day of National Rebellion, the day that Cuba embarked on the road which puts the people at the centre of all concerns. All the events since the assault on the Moncada Barracks are indelible expressions of the unity of the people for their homeland to prevail no matter what the difficulties, in order to safeguard its freedom and its chosen socialist path, imbued with the leadership of Fidel to this very day.
March
in Pinar del Río
In
Pinar del Río people gathered in Independence Park to forcefully
raise their voices against the U.S. blockade and its spurious inclusion
of Cuba on its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
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