“If we have to fight for another hundred years, we will fight”

“Those of us who have had the privilege of knowing freedom, dignity and justice will never get used to living without them (...) if we have to fight for another hundred years, we will fight”.

An expression of the same spirit, of the same people, now in the midst of a more criminal and sophisticated siege, the warning issued by Fidel from here, a little less than four decades ago, was heard again, clearly and in another voice, in the name of Cuba.

Yoel Pérez García, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Party in the Upper East, reiterated the warning from the same square where the Cuban flag waved again, held by more than 50,000 hands.

Among them, those of Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic; those of the member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee, Roberto Morales Ojeda, and the Hero of the Republic, Major General Samuel Rodiles Planas.

Cuba raised its voice in an anti-Yankee tribune from Guantánamo, in repeated denunciation against the new and old wave of U.S. aggressions against our country; the last of them just 48 hours ago, with the red dot of the collimator in the Cuban medical cooperation, internationalist and humanist.

And once again the energetic and just demand for the return of the territory that the U.S. illegally and immorally holds in Guantánamo Bay, as a military enclave, turned once again, to top it all off, into an exile for people who are denied their rights as migrants.

Once again, Uncle Sam's hostile policy against Cuba was exposed to the world. It was laid bare with arguments such as those of Miladis Llosas Preval and the young Ana Laura Campello.

“Yes, the blockade exists!“ reiterated Pérez García several times,” explaining the reasons why. “When we have not been able to acquire, due to restrictions, raw materials to produce medicines; they prevent us from commercializing in the foreign market the fruits of our scientific advances, (and) hatred -he said- led them to deny us oxygen to save critically ill patients from covid-19”.

Miladis Llosas Preval emotionally asked how they dare to call us terrorists those who attack us with terror. She recalled that Daniel, her younger brother, was only 13 years old when he was murdered by imperialist hands, on a flight back to his homeland. “Since then we have never celebrated birthdays in my house”.

In her turn, Ana Laura Campello, fighter of the Border Brigade, Order Antonio Maceo, made clear her belonging to a generation that is, for Cuba, at the order of the future.
Anti-imperialism was the sign yesterday in Guantánamo. Anti-imperialism, as in the speeches, there was also in the art, in the dance evolutions and in the tenth song: “We are anti-imperialist / since Marti's times / because we Cubans have / independence genes”.