Miguel Diaz-Canel

“Emigration is no longer politically homogenous and is no longer called 'exile,' with the new migrants and new generations of Cubans and despite the minority and extremist current that still promotes confrontation between Cubans living abroad and their homeland.”

“We've been going through a massive thought evolution and many taboos have been broken.”

“We have to learn to live with fewer imports and more exports, promoting national production.”

“I was born in 1960, after the revolution.”

“The approach of recognizing marriage between two people, without limitations, responds to a problem of eliminating all types of discrimination in society.”

“OnCuba, in its digital platform, is very aggressive against the revolution. We are going to close it.”

“It's ridiculous how the United States practically every week sanctions Cuba and then uses manipulative language to say this is 'helping' the Cuban people.”

“Cuba does not attack; Cuba defends, Cuba shares.”

“Those lumpen mercenaries who make money on the back of the destiny of all, those who call for invasion, those who continuously offend in words and acts... would be well advised that this people's patience has limits.”

“We cannot ignore the networks where there is an ideological battle going on.”

“I defend there being no kind of discrimination.”

“It's impossible, we have too much ethics to ask someone to attack another. We do not attack, we defend ourselves from attacks. We have been attacked a lot.”

“We are not going to surrender nor dishonor ourselves nor get on our knees whatever price we have to pay.”

“We do not accept impositions and we are not willing to make concessions.”

“We don't want open doors where we can beg; we want open doors because there is a serious dialogue.”

“We are defending our process, we are defending our revolution, which continues to be threatened, which continues to be attacked.”

“The generational change in our government should not give hope to the adversaries of the revolution. We are continuity, not a rupture.”

“The army general will always be present because he is a reference for any Cuban communist.”

“It is said that Cuba is not a priority for the United States... That begs the question why then are there laws... with the objective to attack and to try and control the destiny of Cuba.”

“We Cubans are voting for our new constitution, we're voting for Latin America and the Caribbean. We're also voting for Venezuela, we're defending Venezuela because in Venezuela the continent's dignity is in play.”