Fidel
Soldado de las Ideas
Commemoration of the 35th Anniversary of the Literacy Campaign, Havana City.
The discreet and supportive work of our people from the first years of the Revolution, and its heroic resistance despite the United States’ cruel blockade, was not forgotten by the overwhelming majority of the 192 sovereign states of the world.
Attending the International Meeting of Parties and Movements on the 70th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Moscow.
Fidel cuts sugarcane during one of the many voluntary work sessions he took part in during the first sugarcane harvests after the Revolution.
Remarks at Cuban television on the current international situation, the world economic crisis and the way it can affect Cuba.
Closing session of the 1st Pioneers Organization Congress, November 1, 1991.
I am not here for protocol reasons or because tradition would have it that official guests visit Parliament. I do not belong to that stock of men who run after honors, ask for privileges or live the slaves of conceit. When visiting a country, particularly if it is a beloved sister country such as Venezuela, I respect the wishes of those whom I feel represent it with great dignity and courage.
The ALBA –created by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Cuba, inspired by Bolivar’s and Marti’s ideas, as an unprecedented example of revolutionary solidarity—has showed how much could be done in barely five years of peaceful cooperation.
Rather than a prize to the President of the United States, we choose to see that decision as a criticism of the genocidal policy pursued by more than a few presidents of that country who took that nation to the crossroads where it is today. That is, as a call for peace and for the pursuit of solutions conducive to the survival of the species.
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