UN General Assembly
2019

We reject politicization, selectivity, punitive approaches and double standards when it comes to addressing human rights. Cuba will remain committed to the exercise by all individuals and peoples of all their human rights, in particular the rights to peace, life, development and self-determination. We must prevent the imposition of a single, totalitarian and overpowering cultural model that destroys national cultures, identities, history, memory, symbols and individuality, and that silences the structural problems of capitalism that lead to ever-increasing, lacerating inequality. So-called cognitive capitalism also lends itself to that reality. Digital capital dictates global value chains, concentrates the ownership of digital data, exploits identity, information and knowledge and threatens freedom and democracy, which have already been analogically eroded. We need other forms of self-propelled, humanist and counter-hegemonic thinking, as well as decisive political action, to coordinate mass mobilization in our networks, in our streets and at the polls. Independent States need to exercise sovereignty over their cyberspace, break free of the illusions of the so-called network society and the era of access and, instead, democratize Internet governance.