To the defamatory obsession of imperialism, a constant Operation Truth

“Operation Truth is a dazzling communicational fact because of its originality and daring, but it is, at the same time, a challenge that history poses to us for the times we are living in”.

This was emphasized by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, while speaking yesterday at the opening of the New Operation Truth International Conference, which brings together in Havana representatives of the media from about thirty countries, convened by the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina.

The Cuban Head of State highlighted the full validity of the character and motives of that memorable occasion, in January 1959, when Fidel, in order to dismantle the defamatory campaigns against the nascent Revolution, summoned hundreds of international journalists to witness the transparency of the trials of the dictatorship’s henchmen who had committed serious crimes.

Díaz-Canel argued that Cuba has suffered this type of campaign for 65 years, and has been forced to be in permanent Operation Truth, especially when the Island has gone through hours of dangers and shortages that cause the adoption of necessary measures, such as those recently announced to correct distortions in the economy, which the enemy hastens to distort in order to generate mistrust.

For that constant frontal war of the peoples against the pro-imperialist single thought, the Cuban President called for each communicational project to be a trench of ideas, always in defense of the truth; such as the current struggle waged by the Palestinians against the Israeli occupation, and which the pan-Arab channel Al Mayadeen, whose work team, including the martyred reporters, Díaz-Canel said they deserve admiration and homage, is striving to tell with objectivity.

The forum -whose opening day was also attended by the member of the Political Bureau of the Party and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee, Roberto Morales Ojeda, and Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee and head of its Ideological Department- is also held on the occasion of the anniversary of the foundation of the Prensa Latina news agency, which was saluted in his speeches by the president of Al Mayadeen, Ghassan Ben Jeddou; the Minister of Information of Lebanon, Ziad Makari; the executive director of the Russian publication Sputnik, Dmitry Ushakov, and the former foreign minister of Belize, Godfrey Smith, among other guests.