HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 24 (ACN) The 2nd National Exercise for the prevention and confrontation of crime, corruption, illegalities and social indiscipline kicked off today in Cuba, aimed at strengthening control and confrontation mechanisms, with the participation of government structures from the provincial level to the people's councils.
Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the country, described this exercise, which will last until March 29, as a very important event, in a meeting held at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the PCC and in which authorities from all the territories of the country participated via videoconference.
The National Exercise gives continuity to the one developed in December last year and with it all the effort and commitment to continue advancing in the direct fight against social indiscipline, illegalities and crime, as well as the organization of relations between the state and non-state sectors, Diaz-Canel said.
During the meeting, he referred to the appearance of violent acts, aggressiveness and economic damage, which must be confronted with total severity.
The Head of State insisted that the exercise implies a daily analysis of everything that is being done, and therefore there will be new elements that will arise and require preparation to face them.
He highlighted the need to make exemplary judgments, fundamentally of facts related to crimes that have occurred in institutions; theft of electric wires in irrigation machines; stoning of stores and buses, as well as cases of corruption; the answers have to be forceful.
Julio Cesar Garcia Rodriguez, head of the Office of Attention to the Young Communist League, Mass Organizations, State Bodies and Legal Sector of the Central Committee of the Party, explained that the main objective of these actions is to increase the actions of the State bodies, the Government, the Ministry of the Interior, political, social and mass organizations, popular control and communication in the prevention and confrontation of these harmful phenomena that affect security and internal order.
Garcia Rodriguez detailed that for the organization and preparation of the process, indications were issued to the bodies, institutions and structures of political direction, among which he highlighted the adjustment made in each territory to the plan of actions, taking into account their own characteristics, the behavior of these phenomena and the places of greater incidence and complexity.
The meeting was attended by Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the PCC, as well as cadres of State bodies and mass organizations, representatives of institutions of the Ministry of Interior and agencies of the Central State Administration.
