Díaz-Canel promises that Cuba will overcome the economic crisis: "We are going to get out."

In yet another promise to a nation plunged into poverty, Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated this Friday that he will pull the country out of the prolonged economic crisis affecting the island.

During his intervention in the extraordinary plenary session of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Pinar del Río, Díaz-Canel assured that they are implementing strategies to improve the situation and promised that, despite the challenges, "we are going to overcome" this complex phase.

A Facebook post from the newspaper Guerrillero indicates that the leader described the current situation as a "difficult moment for everyone, but that doesn't mean it is insurmountable."

He insisted on working based on the diagnoses made to achieve concrete results. "A battle against bureaucracy and the slowness of processes is essential. Where there is bureaucracy, there is no action."

He added that the mechanisms of popular control must be perfected and all avenues and teamwork must be enriched, as "there are conditions to finish the year in a better way," a phrase he repeats and repeats without visible results for the population.

These (already overused) statements come in a context of growing frustration among Cubans, who have heard multiple similar promises without tangible changes in their daily lives, marked by scarcity, inflation, and limitations in access to basic services.

But Díaz-Canel does not miss an opportunity to ask Cubans to trust that better times will come, something that most doubt. The strategy, without a doubt, is to say that "we are bad, but we will be fine."

In April, during the second program "Desde la Presidencia," he acknowledged that the public opinion regarding the country's situation, food scarcity, and the basic basket was "critical and negative."

Then, he assured that better times will come, as long as the people know how to offer alternatives, work hard, strive, and take advantage of what he calls "creative resistance."

In January, he called on people to work harder in order to produce more food, increase supply, and lower prices. "There is no room for surrender here, we cannot give up, and we will win and overcome, and 2024 must be better."