Cuban President Pays Tribute to Malcolm X in New York

Havana, Sept 18 (ACN) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel paid tribute on Monday in New York to African American religious leader and activist Malcolm X, who was murdered in 1965.

The Cuban head of state laid a wreath at the statue of Malcom in a Harlem neighborhood, in New York. He also attended a ceremony at the Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Memorial Center.

Diaz Canel said he came to pay honor to Malcolm X and also to African American sisters and brothers and the US people, and to those who fight for justice against exploitation, and to all those “who believe, just like Malcolm and Fidel did, that a better world is possible.”

“I come from a generation of Cubans who grew reading and listening about Malcolm X,” said Diaz-Canel.

The Cuban President called to honor the memory and legacy of Malcolm X as a commitment to those who have undergone and still undergo poverty, injustice and exclusion, those who have been the victims of colonialism, neocolonialism and imperialism. The President addressed participants in the ceremony also attended by IIyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm, who welcomed the Cuban leader and noted that his visit is a tribute to the alliance forged by Fidel and Malcolm X.

The Cuban President said that the best homage to Fidel, Malcolm and the Cuban people is breaking the US blockade of the island.

The Cuban head of state, as chair of the Group of 77 plus China, adressed the UN Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals on Monday, which is part of high-level meetings of the 78 Session of the United Nations General Assembly.