"Dear compatriots: We reach 2023 after overcoming together one of the most challenging years of Cuban revolutionary history," began on December 31, 2022 his message to the people of Cuba the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
In his words, broadcast from the symbolic Revolution Square, he stressed that, "as we push the door of 2023, we feel deep inside the strength of the historical legacy that drives us towards the new year without fears and without doubts, but always aware that it could be even more difficult.
"We are summoned by the certainty that the creativity of our people is infinite and that we did not get here by going backwards. We got here by ascending. Everything we resisted and created in the most challenging year is proof that it can be done. Again and again, it can be done," he continued.
He added that "at the gates of that most challenging year, and therefore more attractive to anyone who feels revolutionary, I invite you to work with passion and desire to continue overcoming the impossible."
"Let us advance over the blockade until it becomes impossible for its architects to hinder our progress," he went on, and called on everyone to build together a better country and "to make dreams come true here, where we learned to dream."
"Today it is up to us to guarantee the sustainability of the just conquests with Marti's maxim that patriotism is a holy duty when we fight to put the Homeland in a condition for men to live in it more happily. Let this be our sacred endeavor. I count on all of you. Let's hope for the future," he concluded.
Translated by ESTI
