A Brilliant and Courageous Statement

By: Fidel Castro Ruz

Attending to other matters that are now top priority, I momentarily strayed from the frequency with which I had been writing reflections in the year 2010; however, Hugo Chávez Frías’ proclamation last Thursday the 30th, obliges me to write these lines.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

THE PLAYA GIRON BATTLE II

It is difficult to write about historic events when many of their main protagonists have already passed away or are not in conditions to give their testimonies on the past developments.

However, it is noticeable the number of comrades, who were so young during the Battle of Girón—and that continued to offer their valuable services later to the Revolutionary Armed Forces as soldiers or officers, in patriotic or internationalist missions–, and still remember and are able to describe with lucidity their participation in those actions, which was not included in notes, testimonies or books.

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THE UNSUSTAINABLE POSITION OF THE EMPIRE

 Nobody can assure us that in its agony, the empire won’t be dragging human beings down to catastrophe.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible. I remember well that one day, almost 20 years ago, I said that there was an endangered species: Man.

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LIES AND MYSTERIES SURROUNDING BIN LADEN’S DEATH

The men who executed Bin Laden did not act on their own: they were following orders from the US Government. They had gone through a rigorous selection process and were trained to accomplish special missions. It is known that the US President can even communicate with a soldier in combat.

Fidel Castro’s Reflections: The Assassination of Osama Bin Laden

Havana, May 5 (Prensa Latina) “The Assassination of Osama Bin Laden” is the title of the most recent reflection by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

  Prensa Latina is posting below the full text of Fidel Castro’s reflection.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

A FIRE THAT COULD BURN EVERYONE

 You may agree or not with Gaddafi’s political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet. There is no other in the Solar System that we know that has the most elemental conditions for life.

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THE BRUTAL AND TURBULENT NORTH

I was reading abundant materials and books to make good my promise of continuing writing on the Reflection of April 14 about the Battle of Girón when I had a look at the recent news that came yesterday, which were also as abundant as they are everyday. You could pile up mountains of news on any given week ranging from the earthquake in Japan to the electoral victory of Ollanta Humala over Keiko, the daughter of Alberto Fujimori, ex President of Perú.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

MY ABSENCE FROM THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

I had previously read the main report by Comrade Raúl to the Sixth Congress of the Party.

He shared it with me several days before, on his own initiative, as he has done with many other issues without my asking him to do so because, as I have explained, I relinquished all my responsibilities in the Party and the State in the Proclamation of July 31 of 2006.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

THE CONGRESS DEBATES

Today, Sunday, at 10:00 a.m., I listened to the debates of the delegates to the Sixth Congress of the Party.

There were so many Commissions that, obviously, I could not listened to all those who spoke.

Delegates had gathered into five Commissions to discuss a number of issues. And, of course, I also took advantage of the session breaks to breath with calm and indulge in the intake of some energy-generating produce. Most certainly they must have felt more appetite, given their work and age.

Reflections by Fidel Castro: The Fiftieth Anniversary Parade

THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY PARADE

Havana, abr 17 (Prensa Latina) “The Fiftieth Anniversary Parade” is entitled the most recent reflection of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, published on Sunday in this capital.

Prensa Latina transmits the full text:

The Fiftieth Anniversary Parade

Today I had the privilege of watching the impressive parade with which our people commemorated the Fiftieth Anniversary of the proclamation of the Socialist character of the Revolution and the Playa Girón Victory.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

THE BEST AND MOST INTELLIGENT

Yesterday, because of a lack of time and space, I did not write one word about Barack Obama’s speech on the Libyan war that he gave on Monday, March 28. I had a copy of the official version that the US administration had provided to the press. I underlined some of his statements. I went through it again and concluded that it was not worth wasting too much paper on.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

NATO’s FASCIST WAR

You didn’t have to be clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail in three Reflection Articles I published on the CubaDebate website between February 21 and March 3: “The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya,” “The Cynical Danse Macabre,” and “NATO’s Inevitable War.”

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

BETWEEN EMIGRATION AND CRIME

Latin Americans are not born-criminals nor did they invent drugs.

The Aztecs, Maya and other pre-Columbian human groups in Mexico and Central America, for example, were excellent farmers and didn’t even know about growing coca.

The Quechua and Aymara were capable of producing nutritious foods on perfect terraces that followed the mountain level curves. On the high plateaux that often exceeded three or four thousand metres in altitude, they grew quinua, a cereal rich in protein, and potatoes.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

“THE DISASTER IN JAPAN AND A VISIT FROM A FRIEND”

Today I had the pleasure of greeting Jimmy Carter, who from 1977 to 1981 was the President of the United States, the only one, in my opinion, who had enough serenity and courage to tackle the issue of US-Cuba relations.

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THE REAL INTENTIONS OF THE “PARTNERSHIP OF EQUALS”

Yesterday was a long day. I was paying attention to the ups and downs of Obama in Chile since noon, as I had done the day before with his adventures in the city of Rio de Janeiro. That city, in a brilliant challenge, had defeated Chicago in its aspirations to be the home of the 2016 Olympic Games when the new president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate was looking like a rival of Martin Luther King.

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My Shoes are too Tight

While the damaged reactors spew radioactive smoke over Japan and monstrous-looking planes and nuclear submarines launch deadly charges tele-directed onto Libya, a North African Third World country with barely six million inhabitants, Barack Obama was spinning a tale for the Chileans that sounded like one I used to hear when I was 4 years old: “My shoes are too tight, my socks are too warm; and I carry in my heart the little kiss you gave me”.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

PARTNERSHIP OF EQUALS

Saturday evening, the 19th, after a sumptuous banquet, NATO leaders ordered the attack on Libya.

Of course, nothing could occur without the United States claiming its irrefutable role as supreme leader.  From its command post of that institution in Europe, a senior official declared that “Odyssey Dawn” was about to begin.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

GOOD CONDUCT CERTIFICATE

In these bitter days we have seen pictures of an earthquake that reached 9 on the Richter Scale with hundreds of strong after-shocks, and a tsunami 10 metres high whose waves of dark waters dragged tens of thousands of people between cars and trucks over homes and 3 and 4 storey buildings.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

THE DISASTERS THREATENING THE WORLD

If the speed of light would not exist; if the star closest to our sun would not be four light years from the Earth, the only inhabited planet in our system; if ETs really existed; the imaginary visitors to the planet would continue their voyage without understanding all that our humankind is suffering.

Just a few centuries ago in the millennial history of Man, nobody knew what was happening on the other side of the globe. Today, we can find out what’s happening right away and sometimes they are hugely transcendental events that affect all the peoples of the world.

Reflections by Fidel Castro: Two Earthquakes

Havana, Mar 12 (Prensa Latina) “Two Earthquakes” is the title of the latest reflections by leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro.

Prensa Latina posts below the full-text version of these Reflections by Comrade Fidel 

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

NATO, WAR, LIES AND BUSINESS

As some may be aware, in September of 1969, Muammar al-Gaddafi, an Arab Bedouin soldier of a peculiar character and inspired by the ideas of the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, promoted in the heart of the armed forces a movement overthrowing King Idris I of Libya, a country almost completely covered by desert and having very little population, located in northern Africa between Tunisia and Egypt.

NATO’S INEVITABLE WAR

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

In contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the first spot on the Human Development Index for Africa and it has the highest life expectancy on the continent. Education and health receive special attention from the State. The cultural level of its population is without a doubt the highest. Its problems are of a different sort. The population wasn’t lacking food and essential social services. The country needed an abundant foreign labour force to carry out ambitious plans for production and social development.

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THE CYNICAL DANSE MACABRE

The policy of plundering imposed by the United States and their NATO allies in the Middle East has gone into a crisis. It has inevitably unravelled with the high cost of grains, the effects of which can be felt more forcefully in the Arab countries where, in spite of their huge resources of oil, the shortage of water, areas covered by desert and the generalized poverty of the people contrast with the enormous resources coming from the oil possessed by the privileged sectors.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

THE NATO PLAN IS TO OCCUPY LIBYA

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world. It was their main weapon when they decided to easily liquidate the Cuban Revolution as soon as the first just and sovereign laws were passed in our Homeland: depriving it of oil.

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

THE REVOLUTIONARY REBELLION IN EGYPT

Several days ago I said that Mubarak’s fate was sealed and that not even Obama was able to save him.

The world knows about what is happening in the Middle East. News spreads at mind-boggling speed.  Politicians barely have enough time to read the dispatches arriving hour after hour. Everyone is aware of the importance of what is happening over there.