28 June 2022 | For: Institutional Communication Department
The First Deputy Minister of Communications of Cuba, Wilfredo González Vidal, is part of the Cuban delegation that participates, this June 28, in the First Digital ALBA Meeting, which takes place in Caracas, Venezuela.
Wilfredo González Vidal, in his words, conveyed a warm greeting from the Cuban people and government to the Executive Secretariat of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), for the initiative of carrying out this important and necessary event and to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, host, as well as to all the member countries.
The First Vice Minister of Communications ratified, once again, the support, solidarity and firm commitment of loyalty to the people and government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, especially to its president, Nicolás Maduros Moros. González Vidal, addressed in his speech aspects to highlight such as: Cuba is in a scenario of increased digital aggression. The monopolies of information and social networks have allowed the violation of their own policies, norms and procedures, allowing messages that overflow hate and violence.
These negative practices do not contribute to the sustainable development of our countries. In addition to the above, there are today campaigns of disinformation and distortion of the truth about our country, together with the criminal economic-commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US, which continues to be the main impediment to a better flow of information and a broader access to ICTs by the people of Cuba.
Sovereignty on the Internet also involves developing and positioning a greater amount of relevant national digital content and services. Only in this way will we achieve greater interaction with our citizens, technological sovereignty, and sustain our cultural identity as a strategic imperative for the survival of our nations.
Cuba reiterates the call for global unity, solidarity and international cooperation, to put aside political differences and eliminate unilateral coercive measures imposed by some countries, which violate international law and the Charter of the United Nations, to the At the same time, they limit the capacity of States to face the current international economic crisis and situations such as the COVID 19 pandemic.
The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, sending greetings to the participants today, from his personal Twitter account regarding this first Meeting, expressed: “A greeting from #Cuba to the participants in the First Meeting of ALBA DIGITAL, a fertile space to exchange experiences and strengthen alliances between our countries in the face of the fierce communicational war that is waged against us.
Wilfredo González Vidal, First Deputy Minister of Communications, in his personal profile on Twitter wrote: We participated in the #AlbaDigital event with friends from Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and other Caribbean countries, all ratify the importance of unity in the digital space to prevent and confront any attempt at subversion against our countries.
For her part, the Minister of Communications, Mayra Arevich Marín, in her official Twitter account regarding the ALBA DIGITAL Meeting, stated: Current times require that we promote a plural and democratic governance of the Internet and advance in a communicational agenda of the peoples, promoting the construction of an Internet.