Díaz-Canel calls for confrontation against illegals, crooks, lazy people and corrupt people in Cuba

The mandataryMiguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez He called on Cuba's political leaders to intensify the confrontation against illegal companies.

"What we are asking is that we develop aconfrontation against illegals, rogues, lumpen, lazy people and against the corrupt, in favor of our people and in favor of the tranquility and honest development of our society," Díaz-Canel said on Wednesday at a meeting of the Council of Ministers.

In the president's opinion, the serious problems of robberies and illegalities that exist in Cuba are largely due to the fact that the authoritiesthey have not acted from the institutions, from the power that the Cuban political system has.

"We can not allow that the logic of someone in Cuba, in the socialist construction, is to want to get rich without producing, without working, without contributing, as an intermediary and illegally," he said.

At the meeting, a document with general directives for preventing and combating crime was presented. In this sense, Díaz-Canel asked more control of the Cuban Communist Party on state entities and organizations to fulfill their missions.

Another line of work will be the "social transformation"so that those who are not currently studying or working begin to contribute to Cuban society.

"We can not allowthat those who do not work, do not contribute and are illegally, earn more and have more possibilities for living than those who really contribute; There we are backwards, we are breaking the concepts of socialism," he said.

The Cuban leader assured thattolerance of illegality does not benefit the people nor does it generate wealth in the country, so order must prevail from now on.

"We do not want there to be less, on the contrary,we want to order so that everything is distributed in a better way and above all, legally, without allowing space for roguery and abuse," he said.

The president indicated that "a caste" is being created in Cuba that profits from an illegal and corrupt commercial exchange, with an underground and illegal economy. He said that is not socialism.

Nor does he believe thatsocialist government model should be paternalistic, so he asked that the conditions of people in vulnerable situations be reviewed and pointed out that a person who can work and is not doing so is not vulnerable.

"The construction of socialism is not done in a welfare-based manner, what we must seek is social transformation," said the president.

Last week Díaz-Canel called"lazy and disengaged" to the Cubans who protested in Havana and commented that the civil demonstrations against the government originate from "political and ideological subsidy from power centers in the United States."

Since last week theHavana government announced that they will confront food resellers, increase inspections of state entities and monitor the hoarding of merchandise, as actions aimed at intensifying "the confrontation with illegalities."

The controls have already begun and the results are shown in the official press. This week the authoritiesThey inspected six bakeries in La Lisa and detected dozens of illegalities. Several people were fined and three were fired for misappropriation of state resources.