The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

The statement asserts a core claim of revolutionary socialist legitimacy: that nationalized enterprises are not private profit-making vehicles but collective property whose proceeds are redistributed through public goods and social programs. It frames state ownership as a moral and legal transfer of entitlement—from capitalists or foreign interests to “the people”—and implies that revenue use is transparent, unitary, and welfare-oriented. As rhetoric, it functions defensively against critiques of inefficiency, corruption, or elite capture by insisting on an exclusive public-benefit purpose. The absolutist wording (“exclusively”) is significant: it leaves little room for acknowledging administrative costs, political priorities, or military/security spending, and thus reads as an idealized justification rather than an empirically verifiable accounting claim.