Speech given by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the graduation ceremony of the Schools for Art Instructors in "Ernesto Che Guevara" Square, Santa Clara, October 20, 2004

A call was put out to grassroots cadres of the YCL and the José Martí Pioneers Organization to look on the schools as the most important Pioneers’ Palaces, because they are a new kind of school. Previously, computers, VCRs, TV sets and many art workshops were to be found in the Pioneers’ Palaces and camps. Today, they are in the schools themselves.

Fidel in Pinar del Río 01

Fidel in Pinar del Río, giving the key note speech at the event commemorating the 47th anniversary of the attack on Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks.

Fidel and Bishop at the UN

Fidel Castro and Maurice Bishop at the Cuban mission to the UN, on the occasion of the General Assembly. New York.

Embrace Lula

Lula and Fidel share the joy of the triumph of the new Brazilian president.

A Nobel Prize for Mrs. Clinton

Now the perpetrators of the coup are already moving around in the oligarchic spheres of Latin America, some of which, from high state positions, no longer blush when they speak of their sympathies for the coup and imperialism goes fishing in the choppy waters of the river that is Latin America.  Exactly what the United States wanted with the peace initiative, while it accelerated negotiations to surround Bolivar’s homeland with military bases.

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