“Intense work awaits us. Let no one expect easy or immediate solutions,” warned President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
LIMA, Peru – The speech of the dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel was responsible for closing this Saturday the XI Plenary Session of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC). In the speech, the ruler explained details of the economic disaster on the Island in order to make a new harangue to the people’s resistance and ask for confidence in future political actions.
“Intense work awaits us. Let no one expect easy or immediate solutions. The path is one of struggle, of creation, of intelligent resistance,” commented Díaz-Canel.
Remembering the centenary of the late dictator Fidel Castro, Díaz-Canel confirmed that we must “change everything that must be changed; revolutionizing the Revolution, which is what is expected of (…) revolutionaries.”
The president recognized the complex situation that exists in Cuba, “urged by transformations that must not only be economic and structural, but also require a change of mentality.”
He referred to the “hard data of the behavior of the economy in recent months”, recognizing that, at the end of the third quarter of 2025, among other unfavorable elements, there is a decrease in the Gross Domestic Product of more than 4%, with skyrocketing inflation and a partially paralyzed economy.
As part of the performative exercise of mea culpathe official discourse did not skimp on pointing to Castroism’s favorite scapegoat: the US embargo. As is usual in the propaganda of the Cuban regime, the narrative of a “blocked country” and of victimizers against victims was fed to atone for responsibilities and ineptitude.
Díaz-Canel also admitted the existence in the population of “generalized dissatisfaction, due to everything that works poorly or does not work,” although he did not define which one or the other was. “Criticism emerges everywhere about the excess of meetings that ‘resolve nothing,’” he added.
The first secretary of the PCC also condemned “the growing inequality between small population groups that seem to have all their problems solved, some even boasting of their economic power, while the majority cannot meet even basic needs.”
Although the dictatorship does not have short-term solutions for the generalized crisis that Cuba is experiencing, the ruler and the state press shared in their dissertation a possible panacea for the energy debacle. “We cannot forget for a moment that under current conditions, the paralysis of many activities due to long hours of blackout” generates uncertainty and accentuates feelings of hopelessness. However, “sometimes they can be reversed with a word of encouragement and gratitude for how much is done with so little.”
On the other hand, Díaz-Canel also referred to the Government Program to correct distortions and re-boost the economy, “whose popular discussion takes on special importance at this time.”
“Correcting distortions and re-boosting the economy is not a slogan, it is a concrete battle for the stability of daily life, so that the salary is sufficient, so that there is no shortage of food on the table, so that blackouts end, so that transportation is revived, so that the school, the hospital and basic services function with the quality that we deserve,” he recalled, listing the same objectives that five years ago also motivated the failed Task of organizing the economy.
Among other topics, he also emphasized the importance of placing food production as a national priority; assume foreign investment with a strategic sense, and “move forward with determination in correcting monetary distortions”, areas where he said insufficiencies, slowness and obstacles have been identified.
“Despite the limitations, health and education will continue to be free and of quality for everyone,” Díaz-Canel clarified, clearly oblivious to the epidemiological and health crisis on the Island.
