Fidel
Soldado de las Ideas
The same Sunday October 9th that René sent his valiant message to the people of Cuba, he taped another fraternal “Message to Fidel and Raúl”. Under advice of Ricardo Alarcón, president of the National Assembly, neither of the two messages was made public until the Probation Official of the Federal Court of Florida should formally communicate the conditions being imposed on him for the three years of “supervised liberty”.
Fortunately the other Venezuela exists, the Venezuela of Bolívar and Miranda, of Sucre and of a legion of brilliant leaders and thinkers who were able to conceive that great Latin American homeland of which we feel a part of and for which we have resisted aggressions and blockades for more than half a century.
René González’ message to the people of Cuba, at his own initiative and bravely taking on any risk, reinforces our profound conviction that the position of the US government in terms of the Five Cuban heroes is by now unsustainable, just as its justification of the criminal economic blockade against our homeland and the punitive measures it applies on foreign enterprises that do business with our country.
What a nice man! How smart he is! So much virtue has not allowed him to understand yet that 50 years of blockade and the crimes against our Homeland have not been able to bring our people to their knees. Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
Poster designed by Juan Ayús with a Korda photograph and the heading of "Comandante en Jefe: ¡Ordene!" (Commander in Chief: At your command!); it was distributed in the Young Communists League (UJC) during the days of the October Crisis.
Fidel saying goodbye to Commander Ernesto Che Guevara at the airport where they have a friendly conversation before Che leaves on an extensive tour through Africa and Asia.
Leaving the Presidio Modelo on the Isle of Pines along with other revolutionaries, as a result of the strong pressure and campaigns by the people to free them in May 1955. In the weeks following, he undertook an intense task of agitation and denunciations and he founded the July 26th Movement in order to carry on the revolutionary struggle.
Fidel in a meeting with members of the Pastors for Peace Organization at the Cuban Mission to the UN in New York. “It is said that Jesus Christ said to Peter: “You are Peter and on this rock I shall build my church.” We can say of you, Cuba’s friends, and of Pastors for Peace, as Christ said: You are like rocks of friendship, fraternity, solidarity, nobility and on these rocks the everlasting and fraternal relations between the American and Cuban people shall be built.”
Inauguration of the Ernesto Che Guevara Health Complex in Las Tunas province.
Visiting the writer Augusto Roa Bastos, 1989 Cervantes Literary Prize ", in his apartment in Asunción (Paraguay) and inviting him to visit the Island. The famous Paraguayan writer-novelist accompanied him on his return trip to Cuba to present the Cuban edition of his books Hijo de hombre (Son of Man) and Yo, el Supremo (I, the Supreme) at the Casa de las Américas.
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