Raul Castro: Change of Mentality Needed to Implement Transformations
President Raul Castro said on Monday that a change of mentality is indispensable in order to carry out transformations needed in the country and to guarantee the irrevocable nature of the Socialist process in Cuba.
Closing the plenary session of the National Assembly of People's Power, he referred to what he described as painful incidents caused by mistakes that led to the unfair dismissal of an official, who was performing her duties with good results.
The Cuban president presented this case as an example of damage caused to people and the Revolution due to obsolete concepts contrary to legality, still deep seated in the mentality of some officials at all levels.
The said official, a member of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), was dismissed for her religious belief and for attending church services.
Raul Castro defined the attitude of those who dismissed her as exhibiting a flagrant violation of human rights enshrined in the Constitution and approved by PCC congresses, guaranteeing access to posts to any citizen regardless of his/her race or religious belief.
If she wants to she can be reinstalled in her post and these words must serve as an act of moral restoration, said Raul Castro.
"We have said more than once that our worst enemy is not imperialism, much less its local salary earners, but rather our own errors, and if we analyze them thoroughly, they become lessons," he said.
The head of State said all this narrow, exclusive thinking must be revised once and for all and adjusted to the reality that emerged from agreements of the 6th Congress of the Communist Party.
"Our Revolution overcame the condition of confrontation with some religious institutions many years ago, a time when both parties made mistakes of lesser or greater magnitude," he said.
He recalled the aspirations of the enemies of Cuba to trigger conflict between religious believers and the revolutionary process, a project in which they have failed, as most humble Cuban believers have supported the Revolution.
"I just consider it necessary to note that attitudes like those criticized here go against our main means to consolidate independence and national sovereignty, which is the nation's unity," he said.
Closing the plenary session of the National Assembly of People's Power, he referred to what he described as painful incidents caused by mistakes that led to the unfair dismissal of an official, who was performing her duties with good results.
The Cuban president presented this case as an example of damage caused to people and the Revolution due to obsolete concepts contrary to legality, still deep seated in the mentality of some officials at all levels.
The said official, a member of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), was dismissed for her religious belief and for attending church services.
Raul Castro defined the attitude of those who dismissed her as exhibiting a flagrant violation of human rights enshrined in the Constitution and approved by PCC congresses, guaranteeing access to posts to any citizen regardless of his/her race or religious belief.
If she wants to she can be reinstalled in her post and these words must serve as an act of moral restoration, said Raul Castro.
"We have said more than once that our worst enemy is not imperialism, much less its local salary earners, but rather our own errors, and if we analyze them thoroughly, they become lessons," he said.
The head of State said all this narrow, exclusive thinking must be revised once and for all and adjusted to the reality that emerged from agreements of the 6th Congress of the Communist Party.
"Our Revolution overcame the condition of confrontation with some religious institutions many years ago, a time when both parties made mistakes of lesser or greater magnitude," he said.
He recalled the aspirations of the enemies of Cuba to trigger conflict between religious believers and the revolutionary process, a project in which they have failed, as most humble Cuban believers have supported the Revolution.
"I just consider it necessary to note that attitudes like those criticized here go against our main means to consolidate independence and national sovereignty, which is the nation's unity," he said.
Source:
Prensa Latina
Date:
01/08/2011