Fidel
Soldado de las Ideas
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.
History cannot be ignored. In spite of the enormous contribution of the people of China and the political and military strategy of Mao in the struggle against Japanese Fascism, the United States disregarded and isolated the government of the most densely populated country on the planet and deprived it of its right to participate in the United Nations Security Council...
Presentation of the First Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, ChaplinTheatre, Havana.
A painting of the Commander in Chief created for his 82nd birthday.
Fidel speaks at the inauguration for the School for the Visual Arts in Manzanillo.
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