In a speech delivered at the closing of the CCPCC’s Extraordinary Plenum, the leader stressed that the current context requires “unity, courage, popular participation, and full conviction in our capacity to achieve victory.”

He referred to the intensification of political and ideological subversion aimed at damaging the credibility of the Revolution and to the financial persecution carried out by the Washington government, which “makes every drop of fuel, every medicine, every food item, every part, and every technology that the country needs more expensive.”

Diaz-Canel affirmed that this reality demands urgent and necessary changes amidst the deteriorating living conditions of the citizenry.

“A deep and agile economic agenda is needed, one that can be implemented in the short term and combines macroeconomic stabilization, incentives to stimulate and promote productive openness, legal certainty, investment attraction, intensive use of technology, and targeted and effective social protection,” he stated.

He emphasized that the proposed transformations “are intended to advance the defense of socialism, to support and expand social justice, to create economic wealth and distribute it equitably.”

The leader reaffirmed, however, that nothing is impossible if the challenge is embraced as an opportunity and history as inspiration. “The best tribute we can pay to the admirable work of our two historical leaders [Fidel and Raúl Castro] is to defend it and preserve its essence of social justice,” he concluded.

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