A forum-debate on the Cuban reality met in San José, Costa Rica to bring Costa Rican society closer to the main facts facing the island today, their possible solutions, the successes and failures.
The meeting between Cubans and Costa Ricans took place on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the assaults on the Moncada barracks in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in Bayamo, on July 26, 1953 under the guidance of Fidel Castro against the tyranny of Fulgencio Batista.
Jorge Rodríguez, Cuban ambassador in Costa Rica, offered a keynote speech in which he covered transcendental events in the history of the Caribbean island. It covered key aspects such as relations with Spain and the United States, and the need to carry out a revolution to give continuity to the independence struggles that began in the second half of the 19th century against Spanish colonialism and later against the governments in power before 1959.
He also answered the audience on different day-to-day issues of current Cuban society, from migration, supply, salary policy, inflation, new economic actors such as small and medium-sized companies, to the participation of women in the different spheres of political, parliamentary, social, scientific and economic life, among other questions.
The meeting was convened by the office of Costa Rican deputy Rocío Alfaro, from the Frente Amplio faction, and was held in the conference room of the Legislative Assembly, in downtown San José.
