The Commander in Head Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro, in the closing gala ceremony of the First Latin-American Congress of the Youth, carried out that day in the Cuban capital, was in charge of announcing to the world the revolution measure, accompanied by the necessary expropriation in favor of the Cuban State, in full domain, of all the goods and companies located in the national territory.

It was including, certainly, the rights and actions of the emergent of the development of these goods and entities, property of legal persons of the United States of North America and of the ones operated with predominant interests of the northern nation.

Those that had been already born -I was fourteen years old- do not forget that this day was doubly unforgettable, we were in the presence of the time in which Fidel, temporarily, remained without voice in the middle of the speech and, fortunately, he continued later with vibrant words.

The foundation of the expressed Law gathered the attitude assumed by the Government and the Legislature of the United States of North America, of constant aggression with political ends, as regards the fundamental interests of the Cuban economy, which was demonstrated in the amendment agreed by the Congress of the above mentioned country on the Sugar Law.

This reform granted exceptional faculties to the President of the United States of limiting the sugar market of this country to the Cuban sugar workers. Motive? To use it like weapon of political actions against Cuba.

It is good that it is said today that such a fact constituted a reiteration of the continued conduct of the Yankee Government, directed to avoid the exercise for our people of its sovereignty and its integral development, consistent with the atrocious interests of the monopolies that have hindered the growth of the Cuban economy throughout decades.

The current generations did not know the acting of many of these foreign companies. The companies Cubana de Electricidad y Cuban Telephone Company constituted a typical example of monopolies by extortionists and exploiters who sucked and deceived during long years the economy of the nation and the interests of the people.

Fidel in his speech said: "They wanted to call democracy to that system of famine, to that system of illiteracy, to that system of unemployment and of misery; as if there could be free a man who did not has a work...

“As if an uneducated man could be free; as if in the middle of that domination, that control about they were speaking, about all the domination means, from the military power up to the spiritual power, the economic control; since they were those who were distributing and handling at their pleasure all the resources of the nation, the newspapers and all the means”.

The government of the USA did not allow its companies to receive the indemnifications, something that is already solved with the rest of the world as it has not responded to the demand of the Cuban people for economic damages caused to our country during these years of the economic, financial and commercial blockade.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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