Havana, Dec 31 (EFE).- The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, warned the island’s citizens this Sunday that 2024 will be a “challenging” year and invited them to start it with “passion” and “joy.” » to «change everything that needs to be changed».
In a congratulatory message broadcast in official media on the eve of the new year, Díaz-Canel also called to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the revolution, which came to power on January 1, 1959.
«2023 ends and it is as if we reached the top of a very high mountain, along winding roads. As so many times over 65 years, the climb has been arduous and at times we have had to go back. But we arrived,” he said.
Likewise, he called for “making, creating and destroying each brick of the blockade (economic embargo that the United States applies to the island) with creativity, that is what we have to do, aware that no one will do it for us.”
“Today everything seems more difficult than ever due to the long years of supporting the criminal weight” of the US embargo, he noted, while acknowledging “errors derived from the incessant search for ways out” in the face of this reinforced policy of fences and sanctions.
Cuba reaches 2024 plunged into a serious crisis that has been going on for three years, resulting in shortages of basic products (food, fuel and medicine), rampant inflation, frequent blackouts and partial dollarization of the economy.
In the last meeting of the Council of Ministers held this Saturday, Díaz-Canel stated that 2023 has been an “extremely hard” year, with a group of “shortcomings, insufficiencies”, and “very dramatic” moments that are part of “the complexities , both from an economic and social point of view.
For the year that closes, the Cuban Government has estimated that the gross domestic product (GDP) will contract between 1% and 2%, after an initial forecast of 3% growth.
By 2024, the authorities of the Caribbean country have developed a plan of economic measures that contemplate increases in the price of fuel, electricity, water, passenger transportation and other services, as well as the end of the universal subsidy for the food basket. basics.
In that sense, the highest authorities of the island have insisted on affirming that the plan of measures announced last week during the last session of the National Assembly (unicameral Parliament) are projections to correct distortions and re-boost the national economy and are not about a “neoliberal package.”
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