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Cuba lashes Trump, issues rallying cry to fight imperialism

By Marc Frank

 

FILE PHOTO: Cuban First Secretary of Communist Party Raul Castro Ruz gives a speech, on January 01, 2019, during the celebration of 60th Anniversary of Cuban Revolution at Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago de Cuba. Yamil Lage/Pool via Reuters

 

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban Communist Party leader Raul Castro, President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro signalled on Sunday punishing U.S. sanctions would only stiffen their resolve to stick together and support social change in the region.

 

The three leaders presided over the closing session of a solidarity conference in Havana on Sunday, a meeting that drew more than 1,300 social activists, mainly from Latin America.

 

The three-day meeting was called to discuss ways to defeat what organizers framed as a U.S. imperialist-led offensive against progressive and socialist governments and movements.

 

Under the banner of defeating neo-liberalism and backing democracy, it took place as social unrest rocked conservative-led Chile and as conflict raged in Bolivia over a recent election that gave socialist leader Evo Morales a fourth term.

 

Protests also continued in Brazil over the imprisonment of popular former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, the centre-left retook power from the right in Argentina and the United States hit Venezuela and Cuba with sanctions.

 

Maduro and Diaz-Canel closed the meeting with addresses broadcast live by state-run television in which they ridiculed U.S. charges that they were behind unrest in other countries or responsible for leftist governments.

 

Maduro's presence appeared designed to signal Cuba would not abandon its strategic ally despite efforts by the United States and other Western and Latin American countries to convince Havana to do so.

 

Maduro termed charges by the Organisation of American States that Cuba was behind unrest in Chile “stupid”.

 

"It is the old Pinochet dictatorship and International Monetary Fund. The people have the right to seek an alternative," he said in a long and fiery speech.

 

Diaz-Canel said in an apparent reference to unrest in Chile and the Argentinian election: “They accuse us of propping up the Bolivarian (Venezuelan )

Revolution ... while they cover their eyes, ears and mouth, so as not to see, not hear, nor recognise what people are shouting in the streets: neo-liberalism is an economic failure and a social disaster.”

 

“Trump and his court of old hawks attack the Cuban Revolution; the Bolivarian Revolution; the Sandinistas; the Brazilian, Bolivian, Argentine leftist political leaderships and social, popular, progressive movements throughout the region,” he said.

 

The Cuban president accused the United states of laying siege to his country by sanctioning third parties who do business with it, urging those present to double their efforts in its defence.

 

(Reporting by Marc Frank; Editing by Paul Tait)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-11-04

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[keith101]

Trump clearly wanted something from them and when they said no he did his usual idiotic sanctions just like the insane child that he is .

[metisdead]

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[Tug]

Another squandered opportunity to improve relations with a neighboring country we were starting to make progress under Obama trump threw that away

[WayWokeWhiteGuy]

2 hours ago, Tug said:

Another squandered opportunity to improve relations with a neighboring country we were starting to make progress under Obama trump threw that away

What progress?

[oldhippy]

7 minutes ago, WayWokeWhiteGuy said:

What progress?

progress towards economic cooperation

[sirineou]

442 days remaining in the trump presidency, perhaps less much less.  Like the rest of as all they need to do is endure until such time. Much like we do. 

[Cryingdick]

3 hours ago, oldhippy said:

progress towards economic cooperation

 

That's like saying we missed our chance of doing business with a homeless drug addict. 

[oldhippy]

2 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

That's like saying we missed our chance of doing business with a homeless drug addict. 

The rest of the world thinks differently.

[Cryingdick]

1 minute ago, oldhippy said:

The rest of the world thinks differently.

 

So let Cuba do business with Venezuela and Russia. They have little to offer the USA. There are enough islands around for cheap vacations and booze anyway.

[oldhippy]

1 minute ago, Cryingdick said:

 

So let Cuba do business with Venezuela and Russia. They have little to offer the USA. There are enough islands around for cheap vacations and booze anyway.

I was talking about EU and Canada

[Cryingdick]

Just now, oldhippy said:

I was talking about EU and Canada

 

I was making a separate point. 

[oldhippy]

Just now, Cryingdick said:

 

I was making a separate point. 

On which island are you boozing now?

[Crazy Alex]

The communists in Cuba are mad at Trump. And as one can see, the communists have plenty of allies in the US.

[Crazy Alex]

On 11/4/2019 at 2:16 PM, oldhippy said:

The rest of the world thinks differently.

Good thing they don't matter.

[oldhippy]

On 11/4/2019 at 10:33 PM, car720 said:

The only good thing that comes out of Cuba is cigars.

The rest they can keep.

I can't stand Trump but these guys are bully boys and someone needs to stand up to them.  At least the boy child is doing that.

QUOTE: The only good thing that comes out of Cuba is cigars.

 

And what about

- rum

- holidays for Europeans (and Americans, but they need a connecting flight in a free country)

- health services for middle class Americans

- salsa

- buena vista

 

[Scott]

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