Fidel
Soldado de las Ideas
Cuban cinema has lost one of its most complete and dedicated artists. Humberto Solas passed away on Wednesday in Havana at the age of 66 from cancer.
We can rightly say that it was the cradle of South African liberation; but one day it will also be considered the cradle of African dignity. And it’s not that Africa has not fought, or that Africa has not carried out thousands and tens of thousands of heroic deeds but this was the most painful stronghold of a system of slavery and injustice...
Speech at the Hector Peterson Memorial in Soweto. Soweto, South Africa. September 5, 1998
"The “Henry Reeve” Brigade has been created, and whatever tasks you undertake in any part of the world or our own homeland, you shall always bear the glorious distinction of having responded to the call to assistance our brothers and sisters in the United States, and that nation’s humblest children especially, with courage and dignity."
HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 3 (acn) American lawyer Leonard Weinglass, a member of the defense team of five Cubans unfairly imprisoned in the US, will talk on Wednesday about the case with the president of Chile's Chamber of Deputies, Francisco Encina, and other deputies.
What has Cuba done that deserves condemnation? What have our people done to have deserved the Declaration of Costa Rica? Our people have done nothing else but to break off its shackles! (APPLAUSE) Our people have done nothing else but to struggle for a better future, without harming any other people or taking away anything from any other people. Our people have wished for nothing else but to be free.
Speech delivered by Fidel at the great popular rally staged by the Cuban people at the Square of the Republic on September 2, 1960
“The Revolution had to win, first and foremost, the workers’ consciousness, and these were won for the Revolution just as long as the Revolution became, more and more, the Revolution of the workers; just as long as the Revolution deepened and as long as the class struggle broke out with all its might.”
Cuban athlete Yipsi Moreno took the silver medal in the women’s Hammer
Throw finale on Wednesday after placing only behind Belarusian Aksana
Miankova.
Con Hugo Chávez celebrando su cumpleaños en Venezuela.
I make a halt in my daily struggle to bow my head in respect and gratitude to the exceptional combatant who fell in combat on October 8th, forty years ago; for the example he passed on to us as leader of his Rebel Army Column, crossing the swampy grounds of the former provinces of Oriente and Camagüey, while being chased by enemy troops. He was the liberator of the city of Santa Clara and the mastermind of voluntary work; he accomplished honorable political missions abroad and served as messenger of militant internationalism in East Congo and Bolivia. He built a new awareness in our America and the world.
"Though we have said, again and again, that our struggle is not against the people of the United Sates —something which is absolutely true— the latter is not in a position to curtail the apocalyptic impulses of its government or the foul and insane call for what they label a "democratic Cuba", as though leaders here put themselves forth and elect themselves without having to pass through that inflexible filter embodied by the overwhelming majority of an educated and cultivated people who must support them".
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