Bayamo, Cuba: Cuba will not betray its friends, President Miguel DÃaz-Canel warned today in a speech delivered in occasion of the celebration of the National Rebellion Day in this capital city in the eastern province of Granma.
He affirmed that in commemoration of the 66th anniversary of the attacks on the Guillermón Moncada, in Santiago de Cuba, and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrisons, in Bayamo, a feat led by Fidel Castro and which started the Cuban Revolution.
DÃaz-Canel said that Washington intends to blackmail Havana for its invariable position of principles and denounced the return of the Monroe doctrine and the aggressions against the constitutional government of Venezuela.
He pointed out that the Island intends to maintain a civilized relationship with its northern neighbor but under the principle of reciprocal respect.
Any proposal that departs from that does not interest us. "Imperialist gentlemen, we don't understand each other," the ruler said.
He added that Cuba has permanently open doors to the American people and knows how to differentiate between its values ​​and those of the administration that intends to suffocate the Caribbean nation with the increasingly economic, financial and commercial fence.
That policy has left losses to Cuba for four thousand 343 million dollars only between March 2018 and April this year.
"This without considering the affectations of the latest measures in Washington that prohibit US citizens, cruise ships and private planes from that country from traveling to Cuba," he said.
He added that in almost 60 years the blockade cost the country 922 thousand 630 million dollars, taking into account the depreciation of the dollar against gold.
They seek the social outbreak, he said, and noted that the Island is focused on achieving economic and military invulnerability, the legal system, the battle against corruption and bureaucracy that cannot be accepted in socialism.
Also in increasing production, substituting imports, achieving productive chain and applying science in national development.
He said that in the coming weeks the Cuban government will take new measures suggested by the people, which will add to the salary increase of the budgeted sector, which benefits more than two million 700 thousand workers and pensioners.
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