“I do not believe that there is another Assembly in the world whose members are more similar to the people they represent,” the head of State said in his closing speech at the 4th Ordinary Session of Parliament in its 10th Legislature.

“Those who ask for democracy in Cuba from Cuba, without having any idea of what they are asking for, take a look at these women and men who live and face the same difficulties as their neighbors,” he stated.

Díaz-Canel stressed that the Assembly is made up, among others, of “young and not so young people, white, blacks, mulattos, mestizos, all; workers, farmers, teachers, doctors, economists, artists, intellectuals, athletes, self-employed workers, innovators, scientists.”

“Seeing and listening to them these days, I have seen and heard the same people that I meet on my tours of provinces and municipalities, the same people who every day face the adversity of long blackouts, the shortage of medicine, food, fuel for cooking and transportation, among other difficulties,” he added.

The president pointed out that they are representatives of a people capable of surprising “with inventiveness and solutions that seemed impossible due to the lack of resources.”

In today’s Cuba, no one has to walk very far if they want to find our heroines and heroes. There are millions of them, they make up the body and soul of a Revolution that resists, he said.

They don’t think about medals or tributes, because they are committed to living their daily lives. They don’t think about losing, but about winning, he noted.

“And if someone asks them what they are up to,” he wondered, “they will say that they are fighting, struggling, without crying, without kneeling, because the most powerful empire in history has been denying their beloved country, for more than sixty years, in cold blood and with total perversity, its right to well-being.”

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