Cuba, ideological war in times of pandemic

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17 July 2020

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Havana, Jul 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is currently waging an ideological war amid the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, and local authorities stressed that the main purpose is to reactivate the domestic economy despite an adverse global setting.

This was one of the ideas outlined by the Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday as he closed an extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers in which the economic strategy that Cuba will implement after bringing the pandemic under control was passed.

In this regard, the Cuban president referred to the present confluence of a 'deep crisis' as an aftermath of Covid-19 and to the collapse of neoliberal paradigms the new coronavirus have brought to light.

Such assertion, he said, is exposed in the book by former US Security Minister John Bolton (The Room Where It Happened), the content of which evidences the close alliance of the Donald Trump administration with the Cuban counterrevolution and the Venezuelan opposition.

Such links explain the escalation of hostile acts by Washington on Cuba, which far from diminishing in times of the new coronavirus, flare up, he said.

According to the Cuban president, this is an expression of the reactivation of Monroe Doctrine, an ideological foundation that materializes in several ways, including slander and lies as pretexts for interference and interventionism.

Diaz-Canel was emphatic in responding to Donald Trump´s attacks and criticized his economic and social setbacks, as well as the 'irresponsible and inefficient way in confronting' the pandemic.