During this very tense, so difficult year, in which we had to face COVID-19 and an unprecedented imperial offensive, Fidel has been accompanying us. Cuba's response to the pandemic is admirable, here and in other countries of the world.
As Díaz-Canel has reiterated, in that victory Fidel's strategic thinking in the field of Medicine and science, his extreme sensitivity towards the most vulnerable and his intimate conviction that nothing is worth more than the life of a human being.
To Fidel we owe the large-scale training of doctors and nurses with different professional training and ethics, the early creation of a Health system that reached every corner of the Island and each of its inhabitants, the internationalist collaboration initiated in 1960 and which has its maximum expression in ELAM and the Henry Reeve Contingent, and the foundation and development of cutting-edge scientific centers in a small Caribbean country.
Furthermore, the participation, from the neighborhoods and communities, of the organized and conscious people, protagonists in all the battles fought by the Revolution under its guidance, has been essential.
In this 2020, along with Raúl and other figures of the historical generation, Díaz-Canel and many cadres of younger generations, very close to the people, have been who maintain that "close relationship." Our Party and our Government have gained more authority and prestige in the face of the complexity of the challenges, precisely when the enemies have insisted on achieving the opposite.
This year there was, not by chance, an escalation of terrorist and subversive actions, with the support of of the hegemonic media, the so-called "independent media" and social networks. Some of these projects tried to acquire an "artistic" garb to enhance certain mercenaries. It was a mistake.
The thinking tanks of the counterrevolution forgot that Fidel himself designed an inclusive, antidogmatic, unitary cultural policy, based on permanent communication with the creators, which was capable of rectifying errors and misunderstandings and laying the foundations for a root link between authentic intellectuals. and artists and the Revolution.
The campaign against the Henry Reeve Contingent also failed. No lie, no insult, has been able to taint the very high moral example offered by our doctors. Fidel was the main forger of the new consciousness that would germinate from the triumph of 59 in the Cuban people, anti-imperialist, patriotic and - at the same time - generously internationalist and supportive.
He contributed with his word and his example to gestate the unity of the nation and its spirit of resistance.