Neighborhood Debates on the Helms-Burton Act Held in Holguín
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Photos: Alexis del ToroConvened by the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, residents of the Popular Council Pedro Díaz Coello, on behalf of the people of Holguín, met with the politician and writer Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada to debate about the Helms-Burton Act.
Yanitza Zaldívar, a professor at the University of Holguín, along with Humberto López, director of the television program Hacemos Cuba, presided over the debates with the presence of political and governmental authorities of the territory.
The neighborhood-debates, which seeks to clarify the reasons for Cuba to reject the Helms Burton Act and especially chapter 3 that advocates the return to the alleged original owners of the land and real estate currently owned by the Cuban state or by individuals.
Taking as examples the lands that Cubans or their descendants already claim, to explain how it would impact the aberrant legislation that they intend to assert in an extraterritorial way from the United States, started the explanation that shed light on issues such as the origin of the Law, its true implications for Cuba, the impact on the own North American citizens and the necessary struggle to be sustained by the Cuban people to face the aggressive escalation the "neighbor of north" against the island.
Members of the community addressed the historic disagreement between the United States and Cuba, the intentions of the US government to own the Cuban territory and how this is another phase of a strategy of more than two centuries.
The purpose of these neighborhood debates is not only to explain the content of the Helms Burton Law and its impact on our country, but also to make each attendee a multiplier of the message and the will to protect our own land. In this way, the prediction made by Alarcón de Quesada can be fulfilled:
"We will continue here 90 miles from them, that requires will, patriotism and willingness to defend our own land at all costs, we have succeeded after many years of struggle. We will continue here to the extent that we are able to fulfill that motto of the CDR since its foundation, which is to be with the guard up. "
In gratitude for the visit and recognition for the revolutionary work carried out for more than 60 years, the provincial museum La Periquera, National Monument, together with the Municipal Bureau of the Party and the Municipal Assembly of People's Power, delivered to Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada the Aldabón del portón de La Periquera distinction.
Visitors also received a painting with the image of Fidel Castro by renowned Holguín painter Cosme Proenza.
