Havana, Cuba.-Cuba will introduce whatever changes necessary to consolidate its socialism to make it more prosperous and sustainable, assured today the second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the island, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura.
Pronouncing the key speech at the act on occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes garrisons, the high official recalled the concept of Revolution expressed by the historic leader of this country, Fidel Castro, who said, among other aspects, Revolution is to change everything that must be changed.
Each of these transformations will respond to the sovereign decision of Cubans and none will obey to foreign pressures that seek to dismantle the revolutionary achievements, he sustained.
Machado added that with clear conscience was started in the country the updating of the economic and social model, characterized by a massive citizen participation, of unimaginable dimension and depth in countries that proclaim themselves paradigms of democracy.
From the Revolutionary Square Mayor General Serafín Sánchez of the central province of Sancti Spíritus, he indicated that since last June, 22 thousand 200 meetings have been held in different social spaces to debate important documents aqpproved at the 7th Congress of the Communist Party on the nationâ?Ös future.
In that process which will end next September, have participated 704 thousand persons who made over 300 thousand suggestions, among them 92 thousand aimed at improving and making more precise the text of those documents, he affirmed.
According to Machado, as Cuban President Raul Castro has ratified, “whatever changes are necessary will be made and at the speed we think suitable, without exception, to consolidate our socialism, making it more prosperous and sustainable.”
In another moment of his speech, the also Cuban Vicepresident greeted Fidel Castro in the name of the people on occasion of his 90th birthday next August 13.
He recalled the revolutionary leaderâ?Ös speech 30 years ago in Sancti Spiritus when that province was venue of the commemoration of the 26th of July, when a summaryt of the precarious conditions of that territory before January 1, 1959.
Machado called the attention of advances made in the region since then, with commendable results in health, agricultural production and tourism, among others, while praising the contribution of Spirituans in different stages of the countryâ?Ös history.
In the name of all Cuba, he transmitted a salute to Sancti Spiritus for proving growth can be achieved when people work with dedication and urged to profit from its potentiality in order to keep advancing.