“We are going to overcome all obstacles” President Díaz-Cane

In Camagüey, Díaz-Canel was interested in the participation of the people in the community transformation. Photo: Estudios Revolución

Visits to the state-owned Sebioca MSME, the flag-bearing of the contingent of FEEM and FEU students who will take part in the national prevention exercise, and the exchange with workers of the Ciego Norte photovoltaic solar park and with the inhabitants of the 9 de Abril community, were part of the agenda of the First Secretary of the Party Central Committee and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, during his visit to Ciego de Avila.
In the biofactory next to the Máximo Gómez Báez University of  Ciego de Ávila, which since January of this year has become the medium-sized state enterprise Sebioca, the Head of State was interested in the progress of that organization, with a new form of economic management and encouraging results in the path to provide high quality agamic, botanical and biotechnological seeds, among other services of impact that contribute to the take-off of agriculture.
The introduction of high-yield clones, such as FHIA 04 -a variety of banana that the province did not have-, the implementation of timely strategies and the links with the Plant Biotechnology Institute of the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas, and with the Plant Biotechnology Research Institute of the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas, and with the Tropical Roots Research Institute (Inivit), have been decisive for the development of this center, very different from the one of a few years ago, when it produced one million vitroplants, far from the four million conceived in the original design.

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The Commander-in-Chief of ideas and the revolutionary epic

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There are human beings who, although they are not physically among us, survive in the imaginary and daily actions, not only of their contemporaries but also of the generations that succeed them.
This quality is not granted by decree, nor is it the result of impositions of any kind. On the contrary, it is only possible to ascend to such a dimension when the peoples identify, and assume, that the one who inspires them is a paradigm, from the unfinished, of the better world to conquer.
Fidel Castro is, in his own right, and merits that can never be sullied, one of those chosen in any latitude. His imprint, in innumerable dimensions, goes far beyond the Antillean geography to penetrate, to the marrow, in the very marrow of the Global South that does not resign itself to be vilified.
Since the dawn of the revolutionary struggle, it penetrated deep into the hearts of millions of people in the most varied latitudes. After the epic triumph of 1959, and the extraordinary journey undertaken to mold a new man and a new woman, and a society emancipated from capitalist hindrances, the strength of his example increased every day.
He shone with unparalleled light, not only in the “luminous and sad” days of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, as he was described by that other giant of action and ideas, Che Guevara, but in each of the undertakings he undertook in favor of the peoples of the world.
That rebellious and indomitable bearded man, who built bridges everywhere for the sake of world peace, gave himself body and soul to the revolutionary cause with passion and sidereal energies. The permanent contact with the people was his greatest stimulus, and the sap from which he drank to defeat imperialism in every trench.
It is not possible, in a few lines, to examine all his contributions. In his brilliant performance there are countless pillars. The struggle for world peace, and the cessation of the arms race and denuclearization, is one of them.

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The United States perpetuates the crime in Gaza

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I have always heard it said that problems are not solved by moaning; but, however true the phrase may be, the United States tramples on it, as it does with the UN, which is now using it, and vetoes a Security Council resolution proposal calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
This is the third time in a row that the Biden administration has vetoed a possible solution, albeit incomplete and with fewer elements than necessary, because the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people needs to be stopped in its tracks and the offenders punished more severely.
These are those who bomb and kill, and the financiers and suppliers of weapons to the Zionist Israeli army forces, used disproportionately with the certainty that the U.S. government will not allow any resolution of condemnation, even the very limited one calling for a cease-fire.
Yesterday, 13 members of the Security Council voted in favor of the Resolution, one abstained (United Kingdom), and there was only one vote against -that of the United States-, enough for the international community to be convinced, more and more every day, that lamentations will not solve the Palestinian issue nor put an end to the Israeli genocide.
The same happens at the International Court of Justice, where the resolutions for Israel to be brought to justice for the genocide it commits are filed away among so many documents that show a defenseless UN in the face of what is happening to a Palestinian population that Israel has set out to extinguish.
This time, as on previous occasions, the United States “justified” its veto with the words of its ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who assured that “the project will not achieve a lasting peace, but will prolong the captivity of the hostages held by Hamas”.
Rhetoric that turns into a veto. Veto turned into a crime. Punishment that does not come. Palestinian deaths that keep adding up.

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