At the commemoration of the 95th birthday of the leader of the Revolution and the 65th anniversary of the creation of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint), Diaz-Canel emphasized that Raul—who attended the ceremony—is a pillar of this bastion of dignity and justice that Cuba continues to be, facing today the most voracious and ruthless of empires, without lowering its flags and without surrendering.

The nation’s historical enemies sought to humiliate Cuba by accusing its leader, and all they have achieved is to unleash the legendary rebellion of the people who repudiate and condemn them. Raul is Cuba, and Cuba is untouchable!” Diaz-Canel asserted.

He maintained that Raul “is also Our America and the Global South.” This is confirmed, he said, by his stature as a statesman who set transcendental standards in international relations, one of them, without a doubt, being his effective contribution to international peace, as the architect of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.

In the face of enemy attacks, Diaz-Canel emphasized that “from the founding generations of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint) to the newest, they have distinguished themselves by loyalty, firmness, and courage, without wavering for a moment in the face of the harshest circumstances or the most treacherous plans, as showed by the 32 heroes who fell in Venezuela on January 3rd.”

“They didn’t care about the element of surprise, nor the disproportionate weapons and forces with which the enemy outnumbered them; they went out to fight and did so with ferocity and determination!

Our 32 fallen brothers in Venezuela,” he expressed, “clearly showed the mettle of the combatants of the Ministry of the Interior and their brothers and sisters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, but above all, they sent a clear message of how millions of Cubans would react.”

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