Fidel
Soldado de las Ideas
With Odalys Bravo, head of the Cuban Moto Mendez Medical Brigade, who presents him with a Recognition Diploma from the Solidarity Brigade in Bolivia. In the meeting, Fidel reads them its Message.
"Of course revolutions don’t take place in a laboratory: they are the work of the masses in the living reality of history, in harsh conditions and in the middle of a ruthless class struggle".
“Until the limit of his strength, Fidel will continue to be Fidel. He who that gave that speech in which he exerts his own defense after the assault to the Moncada Barracks, with which he started the most important Revolution the 20th century witnessed in is second half”.
In Geneva during the Second Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Fidel addressed the Commemorative Session for the 50th Anniversary of the World Health Organization (WHO), at the Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
Fidel meets with Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa, in the official residency.
Gives speech at the rally for International Workers’ Day
Three days ago, a high-ranking leader from the Vietnamese Communist Party visited us. Before leaving, he conveyed to me his wish that I write some recollections of my visit to the territory of Vietnam liberated in its heroic fight against the yankee troops in the south of his country.
It is absolutely obvious that the United States will always try to put pressure on Cuba, as they do on the UN or any other public or private institution of the world. That is one of the features that characterizes the governments of that country; it would be impossible to expect otherwise from them. No wonder we have resisted for 54 years –and we’ll continue to resist for any additional amount of time, if need be- relentlessly defending our country and confronting the criminal economic blockade imposed by the powerful empire.
During the 17th Congress of the CTC. Havana
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