The day dawned complicated in the drafting of 14ymedio In the Habana. Several members of the team woke up without an internet connection and the race was on to find alternative ways to reach readers. The reason was assumed with resignation: ETECSA once again cut off the communications of independent activists and journalists this July 26, when the Cuban ruling party celebrates the anniversary of the assault on the Moncada barracks, or National Rebellion Day, as it prefers to call it.
Hundreds of kilometers away, in Cienfuegos, Díaz-Canel delivered his speech: “Democracy, popular participation, humanism, creativity, innovation, commitment, ideals and revolutionary passion define today what the Cuban Revolution is, and social justice continues to be our guide.” “. He didn’t talk about freedom of the press and he didn’t talk about selective Internet shutdowns.
The president appeared at the city’s Cultural Plaza, where they had managed to gather more than 10,000 people, according to Cubadebate, and gave Raúl Castro his arm, who also leaned on that of the Party’s first secretary in the territory. , Marydé Fernández López, to walk to her place of honor. From there he waved the red and black flag with enthusiasm and listened to the talk of his successor, who had not yet been born on the date indicated but whose speech was anchored in the last century.
Díaz-Canel vindicated Fidel Castro’s allegation History will absolve me as a remedy to the “amnesia” that “imperial logic” wants to impose and spoke of the “material pressures” with which it is intended to make “the spirit of resistance give way and make the Cuban people forget why they carried out a socialist revolution of the humble, with the humble and for the humble”.
For the day, an electricity deficit of more than 10% has been announced, although early in the morning the television showed the official act without problems
While the Cubans traveled through the Island checking if all the unsupplied warehouses were closed or if some truck driver solved the day with some product on the left, Díaz-Canel spoke of a time when Cubans did not own land and houses, blacks and mestizos were marginalized, women lacked rights and there were homeless and hungry. Although he could be talking about this Tuesday, July 26, 2022, he was referring to the middle of the 20th century.
For the day, an electricity deficit of more than 10% has been announced, although early in the morning the television showed the official act without problems. Díaz-Canel, in any case, considered it appropriate to refer to the blackouts and asked Cubans that, as much as they think that there is nothing worse than the power outages they suffer daily, “they must understand that the US blockade is the trunk and the root of our economic difficulties.
The ruler did not have a very successful day. He mentioned as great Cuban achievements the successes in sports when the escape of athletes is more constant than ever, from there it went to the low infant mortality in a year that has left catastrophic figures for the usual indicators of the Island. He mentioned citizen security on day it is known that there are up to 10 daily cattle thefts in Ciego de Ávila and, of course, Health, a few days after counting that almost half of the basic medicines are missing.
AMLO, the Mexican leader, seems to be gaining ground in the affections of the Cuban leadership against Nicolás Maduro, whom the president did not mention
In his speech, the president also made reference to the new regulations recently approved that place Cuba “at the forefront of respect for rights and guarantees,” although he was not referring to the Penal Code, nor to the Communication Law, but to the Code of the Families, one of the few regulations approved by your Government –if not the only one– that the international community can see with good eyes and that will be put to a referendum in September.
Díaz-Canel also thanked the heads of state who have shown their support for Cuba for their support, and among them he had a special memory for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Mexican leader, who seems to be gaining ground in the affections of the Cuban leadership against to Nicolás Maduro, whom the president did not mention despite the bond that has united Caracas and Havana for more than two decades.
Finally, Díaz-Canel said that “crime weakens social work and corruption corrodes everything” and urged to fight it from within. “If we had given up after Moncada, after Granma, if we had accepted the idea of defeat, we would have been defeated, but it was never like that and that should always be our attitude,” he concluded.
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