The Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Roberto Morales Ojeda, called for discipline and the design of “realistic plans” inspired by the dictator Fidel Castro (1926-2016), while acknowledging that many of the Party's directives have not yielded results and that there is a persistent mentality that waits for well-being instead of creating it.
During the extraordinary plenary sessions of the political organization held on January 28 in Las Tunas, Camagüey, and Ciego de Ávila, the party leader focused his remarks on the need to change the ways of thinking and acting within the membership, according to the official version of the meetings published on the PCC's website.
He stated that these meetings should not serve to accumulate diagnoses but rather to generate proposed solutions, while emphasizing that not everything outlined by the Party in recent years has been sufficiently effective.
When referring to the visits to the provinces in 2024 and 2025, he noted that "not everything planned has been sufficiently effective. And he spoke about the analysis that is required regarding the mindset change that each member must propose," the source emphasized.
Morales Ojeda insisted on the priority of the so-called "economic battle," emphasizing food production, foreign currency acquisition, and the rational use of available resources, starting with human capital.
In that context, he questioned a mindset that continues to wait for well-being to arrive instead of creating it, and emphasized the need to ask ourselves "about everything that can be produced in the country that we are not doing."
While reflecting on Castro's ideology, the member of the Political Bureau emphasized that "without discipline, there is nothing" and advocated for the importance of creating "realistic plans," as well as strengthening cohesion among political and mass organizations and raising standards of expectation.
For Morales Ojeda, discipline and realistic planning remain essential conditions for progress, even in a context of shortages and limitations.
He also highlighted the need to analyze more deeply the mindset change that each member must adopt and to measure work by tangible results, not by statements or intentions.
The leader also appealed to replacing the import-oriented mindset with an export-oriented one and to acknowledging that development will fundamentally depend on one's own efforts.
In his speech, he repeatedly returned to concepts associated with discipline, demand, and creativity, presented as key elements to overcome the crisis, although he did not address the structural failures of the State itself in ensuring the conditions for those "realistic plans" to materialize.
During the extraordinary plenary sessions of the PCC, the First Secretary of the organization Miguel Díaz-Canel once again called for a “change of mindset” and “transforming thought”, in a context marked by repeated diagnoses and generic calls, without concrete solutions to address the crisis facing Cuba.
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