Fidel
Soldado de las Ideas
The book contains the speech delivered by Fidel Castro Ruz in the Lecture Hall of the Central University of Venezuela, on February 3, 1999 day of President Hugo Chávez Frías’ inauguration.
Much ignorance envelops not just this but all its infinite forms of experience. Even the fingerprints of identical twins born from the same ovum show differences over the years. So it is not in vain that the United States, the most powerful imperialist country ever to exist, deludes itself when it takes on as doctrine a paragraph from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”.
Obama gave a speech where he used saccharine words to express: “It’s time, now, to leave the past behind. It is time for us to look forward to the future together…un future de esperanza. And it won’t be easy, and there will be setbacks. It will take time. But my time here in Cuba renews my hope and my confidence in what the Cuban people will do. We can make this journey as friends, and as neighbors, and as family… together”.
Sadly almost all religions have had to lament the destructive occurrence of wars and their terrible consequences. They have had to devote their greatest energies to those tasks. The singular importance of the meeting between Pope Francis and His Holiness Cyril in Havana is that it has aroused the hope of the peoples of the world.
The 70th anniversary of the Soviet people’s victory in the Great Patriotic War will be commemorated the day after tomorrow, on the 9th of May. Given the time difference, as I write these lines, proud Russian Federation Army soldiers and officers are going to be parading in Moscow’s Red Square with their characteristically quick and martial steps.
Speech given by Commander in Chief at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, in Rio De Janeiro, on June 12, 1992 and at the closing session of "Dialogue among Civilizations World Conference. Latin America in the 21st Century: Universalism and Originality," in Havana’s International Convention Center, on March 30, 2005.
"Nuestro deber es luchar" recoge el encuentro del Comandante en Jefe con intelectuales de 22 países, celebrado el pasado 10 de febrero de 2012. El libro constituye un contundente llamado a la lucha por salvar la humanidad de las guerras, el cambio climático y otros peligros que la acechan.
Recoge las reflexiones escritas por el compañero Fidel Castro Ruz del 20 de junio al 31 de julio de 2007.
Collects the reflections written by Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz March 28 at the June 17, 2001.
A LESSON IN HISTORY AND ETHICS
by Arleen Rodríguez Derivet
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