Cuba and the Cuban emigration
Díaz-Canel calls on US Cubans to join the struggle for a better world
On September 22, 2023, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel met with representatives of the Cuban-American community in New York City. Díaz-Canel invited them to participate in the IV Conference on “The Nation and Emigration” in Havana on November 18-19 of this year.
The relations between the Cuban Revolutionary Government and the Cuban emigration have been evolving toward cooperation since 1978, following two previous decades of hostility.
Cuban emigration, 1959 to 1976
From a political vantage point that takes as given the need to defend the neocolonial world-system and to preserve U.S. hegemony, the American power elite was compelled in the early 1960s to confront and destroy the Cuban Revolution, inasmuch as it was and is in essence an anti-neocolonial revolution, seeking to defend the sovereignty of the Cuban nation.
As a dimension of this foreign policy objective, the U.S. administration sought to stimulate Cuban emigration through the indiscriminate application …