Fidel Castro: With love and education, a world for all can be created
With love and education, a future world can be created with equal rights for all citizens, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, said in the second part of an interview with a Mexican newspaper.
Fidel Castro Pays Another Visit to Havana Aquarium
"The world of the future must be a shared one, and the rights of human beings must come before individual rights," Fidel Castro told La Jornada. The article was posted on the website www.cubadebate.cu.
It will be a rich world, where everyone will enjoy the same rights, the Cuban leader added during his conversation with La Jornada editor Carmen Lira Saade.
Asked how that unity could be achieved, the likewise first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba answered: with education, along with creating love and trust.
"What is this about some people are Spanish, others English, others African? And that some have more than others?" Fidel asked, after making a toast to the existence of a single homeland in the world of the future.
In another point in the five-hour interview, Fidel Castro said that in 1981, hemorrhagic dengue fever caused the deaths of more than 150 Cubans, most of them children, and was brought into the country by counterrevolutionaries following the orders of Luis Posada Carriles.
"The counterrevolutionaries brought it, the same ones who were with Posada Carriles, the same ones pardoned by (George) Bush (Sr.), the same ones that caused the sabotage of the Barbados airplane (in 1976)," the Cuban leader charged.
Those same individuals were given the task of introducing the virus into the country, Fidel Castro emphasized, noting that no country wanted to sell the medicine or equipment needed to eradicate the disease.
"We had to resort to buying contraband, even though it was extremely expensive. Everywhere, they even prohibited bringing it. Once, out of mercy, they allowed a little bit to be brought," he revealed.
Referring to U.S. hostility toward Cuba, the revolutionary leader asserted that the blockade is in effect now more than ever, and with the aggravating factor that it is constitutional law in the United States.
That includes the Helms-Burton law, "pro-intervention and pro-annexation," and the Toricelli law, duly passed by the U.S. Congress, he said.
In 1962, when the United States decreed the blockade, Cuba suddenly found itself with the evidence that it had nothing more than six million resolute Cubans, on a luminous and exposed island, Fidel Castro said.
"The fight, the battle that we had to wage led us to make efforts greater than what we might have made without a blockade," he said, after referring to massive campaigns led by Cuba's young people, including a national literacy campaign and a drive against diseases that are now eradicated.
Fidel Castro Pays Another Visit to Havana Aquarium
"The world of the future must be a shared one, and the rights of human beings must come before individual rights," Fidel Castro told La Jornada. The article was posted on the website www.cubadebate.cu.
It will be a rich world, where everyone will enjoy the same rights, the Cuban leader added during his conversation with La Jornada editor Carmen Lira Saade.
Asked how that unity could be achieved, the likewise first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba answered: with education, along with creating love and trust.
"What is this about some people are Spanish, others English, others African? And that some have more than others?" Fidel asked, after making a toast to the existence of a single homeland in the world of the future.
In another point in the five-hour interview, Fidel Castro said that in 1981, hemorrhagic dengue fever caused the deaths of more than 150 Cubans, most of them children, and was brought into the country by counterrevolutionaries following the orders of Luis Posada Carriles.
"The counterrevolutionaries brought it, the same ones who were with Posada Carriles, the same ones pardoned by (George) Bush (Sr.), the same ones that caused the sabotage of the Barbados airplane (in 1976)," the Cuban leader charged.
Those same individuals were given the task of introducing the virus into the country, Fidel Castro emphasized, noting that no country wanted to sell the medicine or equipment needed to eradicate the disease.
"We had to resort to buying contraband, even though it was extremely expensive. Everywhere, they even prohibited bringing it. Once, out of mercy, they allowed a little bit to be brought," he revealed.
Referring to U.S. hostility toward Cuba, the revolutionary leader asserted that the blockade is in effect now more than ever, and with the aggravating factor that it is constitutional law in the United States.
That includes the Helms-Burton law, "pro-intervention and pro-annexation," and the Toricelli law, duly passed by the U.S. Congress, he said.
In 1962, when the United States decreed the blockade, Cuba suddenly found itself with the evidence that it had nothing more than six million resolute Cubans, on a luminous and exposed island, Fidel Castro said.
"The fight, the battle that we had to wage led us to make efforts greater than what we might have made without a blockade," he said, after referring to massive campaigns led by Cuba's young people, including a national literacy campaign and a drive against diseases that are now eradicated.
Source:
Prensa Latina
Date:
31/08/2010