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The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, recalled on Tuesday the expulsion of the Caribbean nation from the Organization of American States (OAS), due to pressure exerted by the United States.

Through his Twitter account, the president highlighted that this is a doubly honorable day for Cuban history, since it also commemorates

the recruitment of 100,000 young people as volunteer teachers in response to the assassination of educator Conrado Benítez.

Doubly honorable day for our history on January 31, 1961: Cuba was expelled from the unworthy OAS and 100,000 young people signed up as volunteer teachers in response to the assassination of Conrado Benítez.

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— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) January 31, 2023

On the same social network, the Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero, pointed out that the expulsion of Cuba from the OAS "was one of the many actions, under the dictates of the United States government, against the nascent Cuban Revolution."

Marrero shared in another message the words of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro, who expressed on June 4, 2016

"that the OAS, since its foundation, was, is and will be an instrument of imperialist domination and that no reform can change its nature or its history.

For this reason, Cuba will never return to the OAS”.

Cuba was expelled from the OAS during the Eighth Meeting of Consultation of Foreign Ministers of that organization, which took place in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este.

At that meeting, the then president, Osvaldo Dorticós, stated: "If what is intended is for Cuba to submit to the determinations of a powerful country, in a word, they are trying to enslave a country that has won its total freedom after century and a half of sacrifices, let it be known once and for all: Cuba will not capitulate”.

In response to that OAS agreement, on February 4, 1962, more than a million Cubans, gathered in the José Martí Revolution Square in the capital, approved the Second Declaration of Havana, which ratified the anti-imperialist nature of the change process. started on the island on January 1, 1959.

The expulsion of #Cuba from the OAS, on January 31, 1962, was one of the many actions, under the dictation of the United States government, against the nascent Cuban Revolution.

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— Manuel Marrero Cruz (@MMarreroCruz) January 31, 2023

(With information from Prensa Latina)