British musician Roger Waters, one of the founders of the rock band Pink Floyd, assured that socialist Cuba endures and will endure despite the new attempts promoted on July 16 from abroad to destabilize it.

If I were a gambler, I would bet that there are economic problems in Cuba, since there are some people suffering, but if they return the country to the mafia and the United States government, I am sure that the situation will not improve, Waters told the media. alternative Peoples Dispatch.

Interviewed by the Indian journalist and historian Vijay Prashad as a result of the recent riots in Havana and other cities, the bassist and singer asserted that the Caribbean island has been the "figurehead" of the fight against imperialism since the triumph of the 1959 Revolution.

They have resisted, and managed to stay there, like a thorn in the side of the Monroe Doctrine, he added.

Waters, 78, recalled that he began to hear about Cuba from his communist mother, but said that before 1959 all he knew was that it was a Caribbean country ruled by gangsters and despots.

He stressed that after the triumph of the Revolution led by Fidel Castro, the government and people of the island not only resisted the attempts promoted from the United States, including invasions such as Playa Girón, to overthrow it, but also dedicated themselves to helping the rest of the small and large scale world.

In this regard, he mentioned the participation of Cuban troops in the fight against apartheid in West Africa and the help provided by Cuban doctors to dozens of countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

One cannot speak of any Latin American country where an egalitarian society has been attempted without mentioning Cuba, he remarked.

The Pink Floyd musician also assured Prashad that he would love to attend the upcoming Havana International Book Fair to present his memoirs, which are about to come off the press.