Posted on March 11, 2016 by Siempreconcuba
Mexico-Cuba will never renounce socialism, said Thursday in Mexico the member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Secretariat, Jose Ramon Balaguer, and in turn Head of Department of International Relations of the organization. Balaguer was in charge of the inaugural intervention of the XX International Seminar “Political parties and a new society”, organized by the Labor Party (PT) of Mexico. The Cuban official stressed that socialism is the only alternative for the Cuban Revolution.
Before representatives of more than a hundred political parties and social organizations of various latitudes, he denounced what he called imperial onslaught against governments and progressive processes in Latin America.
In his speech he reiterated the support of the Bolivarian Revolution Cuba and the government of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, he said, facing economic, media and psychological aggression.
He called for unity of political forces and social movements to resist the current adverse situation and “emancipating march together in this endeavor”.
He denounced trade agreements “called free trade” which are “instruments of political domination” and impose harmful to Third World conditions.
The completion in April Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of Cu¬ba will mark the guidelines of the socialist path and program of social and economic development until 2030 on the island, she said.
He stressed that the island resists US blockade, which remains intact despite the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries, reported Prensa Latina.
The end of the blockade, the return of the territory usurped from Cuba by the US naval base in Guantanamo, compensation for damage to the island by the policy of aggression of Washington, are claims of the Cuban people, he said.
The international forum organized by the PT of Mexico debate until Saturday topics as the response of the revolutionary to the “counter-offensive of imperialism” forces, new forms of global economic crisis, and experiences in countries such as Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia, among others. (PL)