Seeking solutions to problems in Cuba
A national plan with creative implementation in local communities
The ninth episode of the Youtube program “Desde la Presidencia,” recorded on July 4, 2024, was dedicated to explaining the monthly visits of Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba, and Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party, to seventy-three local communities in the last six months, since January 2024. Díaz-Canel explained the guiding conception: the national plan for development is finalized and disseminated at the national level by the Party, the National Assembly, and the government; and the plan is made real in each local community by creative implementation, based on knowledge of local conditions. The purpose of the Party visits is to accompany and support the local community in the implementation of the plan, and to develop a deeper understanding of the policies that ought to constitute the national plan. The Cuban Economic Plan of 2024 includes increasing food production for domestic consumption; …