We are dealing with a very powerful enemy, capable of resorting to any means to destroy the Revolution

Sep 28

Notes First Vice President Raúl Castro in closing remarks at the 19th Congress of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions, to whose delegates he brought greetings from Fidel

GENERAL of the Army Raúl Castro, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, affirmed that in the face of great external dangers and those stemming from internal deficiencies, it is necessary to work with more organization, consistency and discipline.

Speaking in the International Convention Center in Havana, Cuba’s first vice president gave the closing remarks at the 19th Congress of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions (CTC), to whose delegates he brought a message of congratulations in the name of President Fidel Castro.

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“Suffice it to glance through the so-called Bush Plan and recall its announced secret appendix to confirm that the empire is proposing to snatch away from our people every single one of our achievements won through so many years of struggle,” he added.

Raúl noted that Washington’s goal is “to put this country in a situation even more terrible than the one that existed in December 1958, in those times when repression, mourning, humiliation, misery, unemployment, illiteracy and disease dominated thousands of Cuban homes.”

“They have even designated a Yankee administrator, someone called McCarry, as if nothing had changed in this world since 1898, when they thwarted our independence and imposed a number of administrators over us,” he noted, alluding to U.S. intervention in the war at the end of the 19th century when the Cubans were victoriously combating their Spanish colonizers.

“The president of the United States is acting within that same absurd logic, when he says that there must be a transition in Cuba; that is, a shameful return to the garbage of neocolonial capitalism that they imposed in this country for exactly 60 years; or when they threatened us recently with the idea that they would be taking note of anyone who is opposed to that.”

“I repeat the advice that I gave him at that time: better to put on your list the annexationists on your Interests Section payroll, which are few, because you would need a lot of paper to write down the names of the millions of men and women who are ready to receive, gun in hand, their appointed administrator,” Raúl said to prolonged applause from the Congress delegates.