Fidel
Soldado de las Ideas
“[…] And one day, Ho Chi Minh’s dreams became true when he said that there was nothing more precious than independence and freedom, and that after the war they would build a new Vietnam, one hundred times more beautiful.”
Fidel participates at the televised “Round Table”
Speech given at the closing of the 5th Congress of the Health Workers’ Union, at the Principal Theatre of Camagüey.
Speech given in Cacahual, at the funeral service for our internationalists killed during their tours of duty in honorable military and civilian missions.
- At the Colón Cemetery, during the funeral ceremonies at the exhuming of the victims of the expeditionary yacht Corynthia, Fidel gives a speech. He refers to the attack on the Uvero Barracks in 1957 and emphasizes Agrarian Reform.
The Order of the Caribbean Community is an immense and undeserved honour, which I deeply appreciate.
To the people of Manzanillo, Bayamo, and all of eastern Cuba:
Our beloved province of Oriente had yet to be multiplied by five when, as fate would have it, our tiny Granma, with only two inches of fuel in its tanks, and daylight already upon us, definitely led us to the swampy shore of Las Coloradas, in the municipality of Niquero. There, discovered by the enemy, and hungry and exhausted from the long sea journey, we immediately set out on the perilous march to the Sierra Maestra, whose nearest peaks were not even visible in the distance.
Distinguished participants in the Group of 77 Ministerial Meeting:
Allow me to extend a fraternal greeting to all of you. I had very much hoped to be able to attend this meeting personally, but it was not possible.
This message is intended, above all, as an expression of Cuba’s deeply felt honor and responsibility as host of the South Summit to be held in Havana from April 10 to 14 next year.
Following Obama’s speech, on May 23 this year, to the Cuban American National Foundation established by Ronald Reagan, I wrote a reflection entitled “The Empire’s Hypocritical Policy”. It was dated on the 25th of the same month.
As a result of the enormous effort entailed by my visit to the Argentinean city of Córdoba, my participation in the Mercosur meeting and in the closing ceremony of the People’s Summit at the historic University of Córdoba, and my visit to the city of Altagracia, where Che spent his childhood, as well as the fact that immediately after this I attended the celebrations for the 53rd anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons, which took place on the 26th of July 1953, held in the provinces of Granma and Holguín, and after
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