Havana: Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel affirmed today that in Cuba there is historical memory, recalling the approval by the United States Congress of the law for the suppression of the Cuban sugar quota in that market, Prensa Latina publishes.
“Illustrative name: Dagger Law called the one approved by the US Congress on July 2, 1960 to suppress our sugar quota”, Díaz-Canel said on his personal account on the social network Twitter.
On the 60th anniversary of that event, the president pointed out that the nation responded with the #LeyEscudo to nationalize properties, to which he added the tags #TenemosMemoria, #SomosCuba and #SomosContinuidad.
Depriving the Island of the North American sugar market supposed economic suffocation given its dependence on exports of that product and that country, which has been the economic metropolis of the Caribbean nation since the mid-19th century.
Throughout the 19th century, the authorities in Cuba, economists and other intellectuals -especially those linked to the colonialist elite- expressed that without sugar there was no country.
However, Cuba was able to place this item in the Soviet market and in that of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe.