Diaz-Canel: We don't build exclusion models

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 15 (ACN We don't build models for the one percent. We do not build models of exclusion, said Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Republic of Cuba, in Havana on Saturday, when he intervened in the political and cultural act for the 15th anniversary of ALBA-TCP.

In the event, attended by Army General Raúl Castro, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and other heads of state and government of member nations or guests of the regional coordination mechanism, the Cuban president said that the United States and the Latin American oligarchies do not forgive them for having built models that are inclusive and committed to the people.
He added that the forecasts of the ALBA-TCP Summit a year ago were not exaggerated and that in recent months the campaign against countries in the region has increased by appealing to the Monroe Doctrine.
He pointed out that the recent invocation of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) is another warning that peace, democracy and security remain under threat since this was an institution that praised coups d'état, supported dictatorships and failed to act when one foreign power attacked another and led it to war.
The Cuban leader expressed Cuba's solidarity with the civil-military union of the Bolivarian Revolution and the Sandinista Revolution, which resist imperial attacks and strive for a path of reconciliation, peace and just development.
Díaz-Canel highlighted the liberation of Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, which represents an example for those who fight for the truth in the face of the corruption of politics and justice systems and the manipulation of the media.
When referring to Bolivia, he said that the coup d'état perpetrated there confirmed the violence of the reactionary forces lifted by the United States and the role of the Organization of American States in the continent. "It is not surprising that the first foreign policy action of the coup plotters was to leave ALBA," he said.
He denounced that those who attack the people in Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil or persecute the leaders of the left are military and police trained in the now defunct School of the Americas or in the current International Academy for the Application of Law, both Yankee made.
He referred to the complicit silence of some and the manipulation and concealment of the media at the same time that he ratified the support and solidarity of Cuba with Evo Morales Ayma.
The Cuban President said that the Bolivian coup forces assaulted two Cuban collaborators and 54 were unjustly detained for several days. Several were searched and stripped of their belongings.
The cowardice of these repressors contrasted with the dignity and courage of our collaborators, daughter of the Cuban internationalist tradition. They are all back in the homeland ready to defend it and participate in an upcoming mission.
What happened in Bolivia alerts us," he said, "and pointed to the need to sow ideas and values and to integrate ourselves in communication as well.
Díaz-Canel highlighted Cuba's victory in the United Nations General Assembly, in which 187 countries condemned the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba for more than 60 years, a triumph in ALBA is a front of unity and resistance.
Likewise, we salute and are encouraged by the progressive triumphs in Mexico and Argentina, whose new governments have already shown their commitment to peace, democracy, development and the social justice of the peoples, with the genuine unity and integration of Our America, he said.
Díaz-Canel described as ridiculous the accusations of the last months against Cuba and Venezuela with which they pretend to ignore the true causes of these popular rebellions which fight against inequality, and will be greater as long as they do not attack their causes.
Now, when as a result of the imperialist and oligarchic plot, in some places the cooperation that Cuba offers has been interrupted, we note with concern that millions of Latin Americans have been stripped of their human right to health. The only military and security forces that interfere in the internal affairs of countries and threaten Latin America and the Caribbean are U.S. forces, he said.
Nicolás Maduro, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and David Choquehuanca, executive secretary of ALBA-TCP, also attended the evening that commemorated the founding by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez of this mechanism of solidarity and political agreement, in whose debate sessions on Saturday a declaration was approved that endorses its original principles.