MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban dictator Raúl Castro Ruz, present this Sunday in the parade organized by the regime to celebrate International Workers’ Day, he said that on the verge of turning 91, on June 3, his heart was “full of joy.”
In a short video Posted on Twitter by Ana Teresita González, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, the former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) also revealed that he had hopes, “like millions of Cubans,” in the commitment of new generations to that organization.
Of the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, who was at his side, he said that he was “working very well and quite a bit, sometimes more than necessary.”
The presence of Castro Ruz in the parade this May Day had recently been announcedduring the closing of the IV Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
Since the appointment of Díaz-Canel as his replacement in 2018, the former president has stayed away from public events. However, on January 27 he appeared in the March of the Torches that took place in Havana.
Just two days ago, Castro was also seen in a photo posted by Díaz-Canel on his Twitter account. in that middlethe current ruler celebrated that “endearing hands” had put the scarf on his eldest grandson.
Although Castro Ruz and Díaz-Canel were present this Sunday in the Plaza de la Revolución, the central speech of the event was delivered by Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and general secretary of the Central of Workers of Cuba (CTC).
The parades in the capital and the provincial and municipal capitals were called by the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba and were nourished by the mass organizations subordinated to the PCC. Several independent media reported in the previous days about the pressure exerted on workers from various sectors to make them participate in the parades, considered by the regime as “acts of political reaffirmation.”
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