Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez addresses the UN General Assembly
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Poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and other social ills “are not the result of socialism, like the President of the United States said yesterday here. They are the consequence of capitalism, especially imperialism and neoliberalism; of the selfishness and exclusion that is inherent to that system, and of an economic, political, social and cultural paradigm that privileges wealth accumulation in the hands of a few at the cost of the exploitation and dire poverty of the large majorities.”
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