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Subject: Willing to face up to the last consequences of the Empire's
attempts to annihilate the Cuban nation
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:53:25 -0400
From: Public Relations <publicrelations@cubanmission.com>
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*_Statement by the Cuban organizations participating at the meeting on/
Civil Society in Defense of Sovereignty and Human Rights in Cuba/._*





The participating organizations, representatives of a broad range of
non-governmental organizations and associations, gathered at the meeting
on/ Civil Society in Defense of Sovereignty and Human Rights in Cuba/,



Aware of the deep political meaning which entails the struggle to
preserve the most sacred achievements of our people,



Willing to face up to the last consequences of the Empire’s attempts to
annihilate the Cuban nation,



Agree to issue the following Statement:



1. The triumph of a true Revolution in Cuba, deeply rooted in
humanism and with an independentist inspiration, is the event of
greatest transcendence in our national history. The conquest and
exercise of power by the people themselves defined, from the
beginning of the Revolution, the democratic essence of the Cuban
social order. The building of a social justice State gave the
category of genuine citizens for the first time to millions of men
and women that could exercise rights that had been long denied by
the neocolonial social order imposed on Cuba by the United States
imperialism.
2. The Cuban revolutionary process has placed sacred and universal
principles of relations between civilized nations at the highest
level: respect to sovereignty, national independence and people’s
self-determination. Upon these values depend the development,
exercise and enjoyment of all rights by human beings, enshrined in
our socialist Constitution and guaranteed by the Cuban
Revolutionary Government.
3. The Cuban civil society is today part and parcel of the Nation,
acting in the continuous conformation and enrichment of the
national identity and homeland values, fully participating in the
processes for the development of our cultural entity, defending
the most solid principles and interests of the Revolution and
being, in essence, reflection and incarnation of the spirituality
of our people.
4. The true Cuban civil society is not mercenary nor is in the pay of
foreign powers to act against the homeland’s interests; has it not
been manufactured nor imported to be the accomplice of those who
attack their people. The United States government–a foreign
government that arrogates the right to interfere with our internal
affairs—is totally unable to establish criteria on the validity of
our civil society.
5. The undersigned of this Statement recognize the autochthony and
the genuinely democratic, participatory and popular value of the
political system that we have chosen for ourselves in keeping with
our national interest and the uniqueness inherent to our history.
6. We strongly condemn the attempts to impose the “transition to
capitalism” in Cuba, laid out in the plan for the annexation of
Cuba adopted by President George W. Bush on 6 May 2004, requested
by the cynically called /Commission for Assistance to a Free
Cuba/. This shameful project intends on taking away our
independence and restoring Yankee domination on the Cuban nation.
The Cuban organizations, together with our people, will never let
our historic enemies restore the opprobrious system of
exploitation that buried the hopes of independence and justice
that inspired the struggles of so many Cubans.
7. The immoral exercise to condemn Cuba at the Commission on Human
Rights is yet another aggression aimed at justifying Bush’s plan
of aggression and blockade. It makes no sense that the empire that
attacks us, trying to kill all Cubans by hunger and disease,
encouraging terrorist acts against our people and harboring in its
territory terrorist of the worst sort –responsible for the death
and suffering of many Cubans—intends to condemn us. Those who try
to condemn us, shamelessly using the issue of human rights, have
no moral reason whatsoever.
8. In the defense, preservation and development of our indisputable
social achievements, the value of national unity has been sacred
and vital; we strongly and firmly oppose anything that diminishes,
denies or weakens it. An armed aggression against our land will be
met by the continuous and organized resistance of our people until
the final victory.
9. Culture is a source of freedom. “To be cultured to be free”, said
our apostle José Martí. Culture can neither be possible without
the sovereign exercise of the people’s will. The Revolution is the
most important and inspiring cultural event in the Cuban
libertarian epic. A genuine culture of emancipation and human
redemption is only possible if it is inspired by men and builds on
the most valuable and creative of its heritage.
10. Neither armed aggressions, terrorist acts, slandering and
disinformation campaigns, nor the criminal and unjust economic,
commercial and financial blockade imposed on us for over forty
years, nor the measures contained in the plan for the annexation
of Cuba, nor any other crueler decisions will make us give up in
the unwavering support to the revolutionary social project that we
have freely chose and will defend.
11. The Cuban Revolution today takes on a meaning of universal
validity. The presence of thousands of cooperators and
collaborators in the remotest and poorest places of the globe is a
selfless and noble example of commitment with the life of the
poorest and forgotten. “Homeland is Humanity” said Martí.
12. The participating organizations wish to express our appreciation
to the defenders of ideas of justice and dignity to intellectuals,
parliamentarians, NGO representatives, social fighters and all
those who honestly defend the right of existence of the Cuban Nation.
13. We denounce the intentions stated by top U.S. government officials
of using other countries’ governments and NGOs, religious groups
and exchanges between academics, students, intellectuals and
artists to encourage subversion and to finance mercenaries with a
view to toppling the government that we Cubans have chosen. We
urge the civil society from around the world and the international
public to repudiate such inadmissible acts of aggression against
the independence of the country.
14. The Cuban people will prevent the attempts to stripe it from
everything that belongs to them; they will defend with all their
strength the right to live and hand down a free nation, to enjoy
and participate in the development of culture, to obtain ever
higher levels of schooling, to enjoy universal and quality health
care services, to participate as active and leading subjects in
the political and economic life of the country, to responsibly and
in full freedom express their opinions, to continue providing the
world with their help in solidarity as proof of our
internationalist vocation, to defend to the last consequences the
fate of the Revolution evidencing their unconditional loyalty to
the Homeland, Socialism and Fidel.



Havana, 12 April 2005



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