In a forceful speech before more than 400 deputies who make up the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP), the Cuban leader said that Cuba will celebrate the 65th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution coming January 1, and will do so with joy that not even the worst gales of nature or the (U.S.) empire have been able to take away.

We will celebrate our will of what must be changed to keep the social conquests the Revolution turned into rights of the people. We will celebrate our independence, our sovereignty and freedom, he stressed.

Díaz-Canel said that when the phrase “This is the Revolution” is pronounced, it summarizes 65 years of heroic creation and always thinks first of health and education.

These are two arms of the immense work on which we raise against all odds, the ideal of a nation, which has at the center of its concerns and worries the human being and will always have it because there will always be the Revolution, which is what it was made for, he remarked.

In his remarks, the President addressed the historic leader of the Revolution, Raúl Castro, who attended the meeting. ¨You have told us many times that it can be done and we will do it,” he reaffirmed.

This is the Revolution, that of your worthy Cuban people, the will to work, the eagerness to advance and the deep conviction that we are going to win, concluded the President.

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