"What we began to found and build last year from the left, with a smaller number of communicators, of progressive communicators, with an enormous vocation to find solutions to the problems of the world, has been consolidated in this meeting that has had a very high level of debate."
This was the assessment of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, during a meeting held in the halls of the Palace of the Revolution, with participants of the second edition of the Patria Colloquium.
Thank you for your presence in Cuba, said the dignitary. He also said he considered the colloquium a "a victory, where very interesting ideas have been discussed."
The causes that lead the media in power of the empire to promote campaigns of hatred, lies and slander against the revolutionary processes were debated in depth," he reflected.
It is precisely in this regard that Cuba has a great deal of experience, which is constantly besieged and tried to fill with falsehoods by the reactionary media.
In this regard, the Head of State shared with those present several examples of incidents that have been manipulated and, as a consequence, have brought about serious problems for our country. Such is the case, President Díaz-Canel commented, of the "famous pretext of the alleged sonic incidents in Havana, for which Trump applied 243 measures to tighten the blockade on Cuba."
Despite the fact that we disproved that fallacy, he commented, the "story kept moving like a snowball falling down a mountain and getting bigger. Today the lie is undone, but the 243 measures that tighten the blockade are still in place.”
"Fighting against lies has a price, and all of us are paying that by price defending the truth; but it is the most dignified thing we can do if we want a better world; it is the most revolutionary thing we can do to break the hegemonism they intend to impose on us, and the colonialism with which they want to conquer us in the media today," stressed the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
That is why, the Cuban leader said, in our modest opinion, "this second edition of the Colloquium has a tremendous value, and all the ideas we have shared together have a tremendous value."
Now the problem, he said, lies in "how we implement and follow up on what has been discussed."
We, he assured, are going to do everything possible, "from our party structures and from our government structures, to implement the suggestions, together with other friendly governments, so that next year, when we are holding the third Colloquium, because there will be a Colloquium for life, we will not only be discussing diagnosis, but we will be analyzing what we have contributed and what are the results obtained from the suggestions, and how they have been implemented.
"It is a difficult task, but we are going to do it," he said.
Referring to the concepts of articulation and decentralization, widely analyzed during the debates, President Díaz-Canel considered that they are "two concepts that come together and should not necessarily be separated as opposites."
In a night where there were more expressions of commitments and more dialogue, the Cuban leader spoke to those present about the need to build a culture and an education that prepares the people to take on this important battle; to design platforms for political preparation in communication and the support that the José Martí International Institute of Journalism and Cuban universities can provide on that path; to prepare those who will train future professionals; to re-evaluate, re-qualify and always defend the principles of the left.
And in that purpose, he stressed, "we are going to fight united, and we are going to fight as Che taught us, with the conviction that we will always fight until victory."
Translated by ESTI
