Havana, December 15 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Saturday that "we don't build models for one percent. We don't build models of exclusion."
Speaking at a political cultural rally wrapping up the Summit celebrating 15th anniversary of ALBA-TCP which was attended by Army General Raúl Castro, Díaz-Canel pointed out that the U.S. and the Latin American oligarchies do not forgive its member countries for having built models that are inclusive and committed to their people.
He added that the forecasts of the ALBA-TCP Summit a year ago were not exaggerated and that in recent months the campaign against countries in the region has increased by appealing to the Monroe Doctrine.
He pointed out that the recent invocation of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) is another warning that peace, democracy and security remain under threat since this was an institution that praised coups d'état, supported dictatorships and failed to act when one foreign power attacked another and led it to war.
The president also expressed Cuba's solidarity with the civil-military union of the Bolivarian Revolution and the Sandinista Revolution, which are resisting imperial attacks and striving on a path of reconciliation, peace and fair development.
Diaz-Canel said the release of Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, represents an example for those who fight for the truth in the face of the corruption of politics and justice systems and the manipulation of the media.
Turning to Bolivia, he added that the coup d'état confirmed the violence of the reactionary forces supported by the United States and the role of the Organization of American States in the continent.
"It is not surprising that the first foreign policy action of the coup plotters was to take the country out of ALBA," he said.
Díaz-Canel denounced that those who attack the peoples in Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil or persecute leftist leaders are military and police personnel trained at the now defunct School of the Americas or the current International Law Enforcement Academies, both of U.S origin.
He referred to the complicit silence of some and the manipulation and concealment of the media at the same time that he ratified the support and solidarity of Cuba with Evo Morales Ayma.
"What happened in Bolivia is a warning to us," he said, pointing to the need to sow ideas and values.
Nicolás Maduro, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and David Choquehuanca, executive secretary of ALBA-TCP, also attended the activity during the evening that commemorated the foundation by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez of this mechanism of solidarity and political agreement.
