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Inhabitants of Las Tunas Debate on the Helms-Burton Act: "No Man, No!"

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"No man, no!" With that popular expression of denial that was said spontaneously by one of the attendees, the inhabitants of this province of eastern Cuba reiterated their rejection of the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- It happened during a neighborhood debate organized for that purpose by the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution with the special intervention of Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada.

The debate was held at the most emblematic place of the historic center of the provincial capital. The meeting was chaired by Manuel Pérez Gallego, recently promoted as the first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party here, and Jaime Chiang Vega, head of the Provincial Assembly of People's Power.

Flanked by Humberto López Suárez, host of the Hacemos Cuba television program, the local expert Eugenio Ramos and Víctor Marrero Zaldívar, Historian of the city, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs underlined the true motivations of a law promoted by the most extremist sectors of the class American policy.

Ricardo Alarcón in debate about Helms-Burton Act in Las TunasAlarcón de Quesada stressed that they are the followers of Batista, the assassins and thieves of the national patrimony, the impellers of that monster that aims to bring back to Cuba before January 1, 1959. He explained that the evidence is clear when they talk about returning properties to their former owners from that date. "What revolutionary law had been enacted at that time? None. That shows their intentions," he said.

The man who served for several terms as president of the Cuban Parliament said that "if the plan of the enemy is to destroy us through economic suffocation; all of us no matter what function we have. Then, we must fight the economic battle that is what our President Miguel Díaz-Canel is calling us every day."

On the other hand, Eugenio Ramos warned that the activation of Title III seeks to discourage foreign investment; while Marrero Zaldívar referred to the conditions of subjection to foreign capital and the national bourgeoisie that suffered the current territory of Las Tunas before the triumph of 1959.

From the audience, along with the aforementioned expression of rejection of the return to hostility against Cuba, in the context of the arrival of Donald Trump at the White House, the interventions also highlighted the disastrous consequences that would have the destruction of the work of the Revolution.

Before the end of that evening, the Municipal Assembly of People's Power handed Ricardo Alarcón the Shield of the City, in just praise of his revolutionary trajectory.

Ricardo Alarcón in debate about Helms-Burton Act in Las Tunas

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