With the application of those initiatives, focused on modifying the prices of energy resources, attracting foreign currency, and continuing to boost national production, Cuba is projecting a growth in the Gross Domestic Product, at constant prices, of around two percent for the starting year .

2023 was a complex year for the country in a scenario of international crisis, aggravated by the tightening of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States more than six decades ago.

Despite Washington’s constant hostility and destabilization attempts, Cuba has not give up its commitment to continue protecting the priority sectors of society and making progress in legislative transformations.

Cuba also played a leading role in the international arena, highlighting its G77+China presidency and the Summit of Heads of State and Government of that bloc in Havana.

Among those difficulties, the Cuban Revolution has been ratified for 65 years as one of the most transforming events of the reality and the daily life of its inhabitants.

On January 1, 1959, Cubans woke up with the news that dictator Fulgencio Batista and most of his closest collaborators had fled the country.

It was inevitable that the Rebel Army, led by Fidel Castro, would achieve the triumph of their national liberation movement.

The July 26 Movement and other progressive organizations that joined took the armed struggle as the only possible way to eliminate the causes of the country’s problems, which Fidel himself exposed and analyzed in speech”History will Absolve Me,” during his defense plea for the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons on July 26, 1953.

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