HAVANA, Cuba.- We voted for a constitution we have written among all Cubans, that we have debated and amended among all, that reflects diverse visions of our society and at the same time a strong unity of the nation, Chancellor Bruno Rodriguez said this Sunday.
When voting at an electoral college at Playa municipality in Havana, Rodriguez expressed his confidence that the result will be largely majority in support of a Constitution that confirms and deepens our rights.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs remarked that this text modernizes our vision of the nation and it is an important basis for continuing to build the socialist future, in addition to containing very important elements of foreign policy in search of a world of peace.
Rodriguez said the international situation is becoming more and more dangerous because threats to peace are proliferating like what happens now around Venezuela.
Support to Venezuela
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said the independence and sovereignty of all is being decided in Venezuela, as well as the validity of international law.
That is why we feel a deep solidarity with President Nicolas Maduro, with the Bolivarian Revolution, with the civic-military Union of the Venezuelan people, the Cuban Chancellor highlighted after referring to the current international situation, where there is an attempt to maintain and deepen a unipolar order contrary to the historical tendencies.
Rodriguez denounced the redeployment of imperialism in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the renewed validity of the Monroe Doctrine that seemed already buried, now with a new McCarthyism out of fashion and fevered.
The Cuban Chancellor said no one can believe that Cuba is part of an axis of evil associated with terrorism, and he rejected unilateral, arbitrary and unfair listings or certifications.
Relations with the United States
There is an unfortunate, unfortunate setback against the national interest of both nations, Chancellor Bruno Rodriguez said in reference to the current state of relations between Cuba and the United States.
Rodriguez explained in the United States there is a fundamentalist, radical and extremist clique that has a decisive influence on politics towards Cuba, in the midst of the great disorder in that country and of a politics difficult to understand, very questioned even from the American right itself.
On the eventual activation of Title III of Helms-Burton Act or the application of additional blocking measures, he said Cuba is prepared for those options.
Our people will prevail not only in the capacity of resistance against any measure, but also in terms of securing their development, Chancellor Rodriguez assured when he voted today.