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Havana, Nov 17.- The disorder of the international monetary and financial system is the main obstacle to achieving the right to development in the countries of the South, said Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic.
He made such reflection in a seminar with experts from several academic institutions in the region, in the heat of the XIV International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems, based at the Havana Convention Center.
Experts from the World Economy Studies Network (Redem), the Society of Political Economy and Critical Thinking in Latin America (Sepla) and the Working Group of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (GT Clacso) addressed aspects of the current monetary order and international financial and its challenges to critical thinking, with examples of what is happening in various nations and regions.
Events like this, your participation, your approaches, give us learning and light for what we have to do, but they also ratify many conditions for us, because what you are denouncing and discussing here is part of what we are also facing and of the convictions we have, the president told them.
He stressed that his presence with them was fundamentally due to the commitment to rescuing these Globalization meetings founded by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, hence the request to the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba to hold them every two years.
Another reason is in the learning for those of us who have leadership tasks, in a country that is building Socialism 90 miles from North American imperialism, he said.
Díaz-Canel explained that the intensified US blockade that the country faces requires an approach from political economy and Marxism to everything that is done, in order to correct errors, which is why in the transmission of knowledge to the directives of the Party and State Scientists, jurists, economists and other professionals participate in groups of experts.
When referring to what he called disorder of the international monetary and financial system, he pointed out that since the pro tempore presidency of the Group of 77 and China, Cuba proposed to impregnate it with greater activity, but verified that the promised help from some powers and banking institutions is a lies and do not even comply with the principle of shared responsibility with the environment.
The Cuban President elaborated on the traps they try to impose on the Third World, hence his assessment that this monetary and financial system is the main obstacle to its development.
When the inequality gaps between the North and the South continue to grow as does the debt, only at the BRICS summit did the Group of 77 and China find a different approach, one of inclusion and sensitivity, he pointed out.
Díaz-Canel alluded to the presentation made by Pasqualina Curcio, from the Simón Bolívar University, who explained how in Venezuela, as part of the economic war against the Bolivarian Revolution, imperialism has induced the exchange rate to affect the prices of goods and services
This generates inflation and triggers economic and political destabilization, in addition to an entire campaign of discredit and guilt towards the government of Nicolás Maduro.
He pointed out that they are trying to do something very similar in Cuba, where together with the tightening of the blockade, and the arbitrary inclusion of the Island in the list of States that promote terrorism, they intend to turn the new economic actors into "agents of regime change."
Parallel to the actions of economic suffocation, he warned, imperialism has a platform dedicated to cultural colonization, with which they try to impose their ideology not only in Cuba, but in the world.
The Cuban head of state highlighted that without failing to recognize dissatisfaction with everything that remains to be achieved, corrected or rectified, despite serious resource limitations, no State has done so much in terms of health, education and other sectors.
He then abounded in what he called creative resistance, in the search for solutions with our own resources and talents, as happened during the confrontation with the COVID-19 pandemic with the creation of Cuban vaccines.
We not only resisted, but we grew, stated the president, in addition to emphasizing that Cuba's response to the challenges is to continue building a Socialist Revolution. (ACN) (Photo: PL)
