By Eloy Viera Cañive (El Toque)
HAVANA TIMES – During a meeting of the Council of Ministers held on January 29, 2024, ostensibly to analyze new economic measures and their political communication, Miguel Díaz-Canel stated: “The measures are necessary and unavoidable, correcting deep distortions and structural deviations that weigh down the performance of the economy and are aimed at the benefit of the people.”
The designated Cuban president expressed concern about the efforts of the “enemy,” who, according to him, tried to sow discouragement among the people to promote unrest after the announcement of the measures. Díaz-Canel said that the “enemy’s” plan also included claiming that a “neoliberal package” was being implemented in Cuba.
To refute the information, Díaz-Canel asked those present to name a neoliberal package in the world that had started by increasing salaries in two basic sectors of society (Health and Education). The president referred to the recent salary increase for workers in Education and Public Health. Díaz-Canel used this measure to categorically state, “therefore, this is not a neoliberal package.”
Díaz-Canel’s assertion and the logic he defended before his ministers should be sufficient for the Cuban propaganda system to stop calling the measures being promoted by the recently inaugurated president of Argentina, Javier Milei, a “paquetazo.”
The island’s propaganda has repeatedly claimed that Milei’s measures are a significant economic “paquetazo” for the Argentine people. However, according to Diaz-Canel’s logic, the Argentine president’s initiative should be considered a series of measure
