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Raul Castro: a Change of Mentality is Necessary for the Good of Socialism.

CUBA, August 2, 2011.- Cuban President Raul Castro reiterated on Monday that it’s not possible to undertake the changes necessary to achieve the sustainability and irrevocable nature of Socialism without a change of mentality, a reason for which he criticized the immobilism, indifference and insensitivity of some leaders.

While closing at Havana’s Convention Center the 7th Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of the People’s Power (Parliament), Raul, who is also the First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, underlined that the psychological barrier could be an obstacle to the implementation of the agreements of the 6th Congress of that organization.

We’ll be patient and at the same time persevering in the face of resistance to change, whether conscious or unconscious, Raul told the deputies, after referring to a sad incident caused by mistakes in the management policy that led to the unfair replacement of a woman official for professing a religion.

He said that this is a flagrant violation of citizen’s rights and that it infringes what is established by Article 42 of the Constitution of the Republic, that is, that discrimination due to race, color of the skin, sex, national origin, religious beliefs or any other reason
damaging human dignity is forbidden and punished by law.

Raul also made reference to the role of the permanent commission for the implementation and  development of the guidelines, which will carry out the economic model including the perfecting of the government at every level, and will prepare the economic and comprehensive conceptualization of the Cuban socialist economy.

He clarified that this commission doesn’t replace the institutional responsibility of organs and entities, and that all opinions around a topic or a study should be analyzed, and presented to higher levels if consensus is not reached.

The Commission in charge of leading and controlling this task, according to Marino Murillo, vice-president of the Council of Ministers and head of this Commission, will present in September to the country’s government a work schedule aimed at implementing before 2015 the more than 300 guidelines approved at the 6th Party Congress.

He specified that new guidelines could be incorporated and that several principles would be taken unto account in the preparation of this program, among them the order of priority and sequence; its classification by groups considering those causing changes in the model of economic management, having positive impacts in the population, or perfecting systems (those of health and education, for example) and those that can be implemented in a short period of time and don’t require resources. (Cubaminrex-ACN)

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