Havana, Cuba: Former Guyanese President Donald Ramotar highlighted the high value of the solidarity offered by Cuba to other countries and assured that it is far superior to the assistance of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Prensa Latina publishes.
The former president (2011-2015) opined that it is impossible to try to put a dollar sign on Cuban solidarity in the Caribbean, Latin America and beyond, including the formation of human capital, but he advanced that the figure is “much more than what the IMF and the World Bank have been giving to our countries”.
Ramotar, a 73-year-old economist, offered exclusive statements to Prensa Latina after participating here in the First International Meeting of Theoretical Publications of Leftist Parties and Movements, which brought together representatives from more than 30 countries here.
The also editor of the Guyanese magazine Thinker praised the holding of the event, convened by the Cuba Socialista magazine, since he considers it necessary for the editors and left-wing intellectuals in the region to renew their contacts and initiate new ones.
Ramotar insisted on the qualitatively different assistance provided by Cuba for the peoples to develop their own societies, without any preconditions.
In this sense, the Guyanese researcher and political leader regretted the persistence of the US policy of hostility towards Cuba, a country -he said- that he has done so much for his people and for other peoples.
He criticized the fact that Washington has not taken into account the feelings that the peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America profess towards Cuba.
I think the biggest problem Cuba has is the long-standing commercial, economic and financial blockade, which has greatly affected the island. That is the position of all the countries of the Caribbean and Latin America, which continue to fight with the Cuban people to end the blockade.
Ramotar advanced that he is now writing about the problems of building socialism in hostile environments and how capitalism, despite its uselessness, insists on staying on our backs and only creates poverty and misery for the peoples of the world.
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