The great friend of Fidel Castro, Antonio ''El Cuate'' del Conde, facilitator of the Granma expedition, requested today to march next May Day with the flags hoisted by Fidel Castro and Nicolás Maduro.
 
During an International Seminar of Tribute to Commander Fidel Castro, which began yesterday in Acapulco, he assured Prensa Latina that both Fidelist philosophical thought and the Bolivarian and Chavista revolution are currently of vital importance to the Latin American peoples.
 
I am 93 years old, I was an accomplice to Fidel, Raul and all those participating in the Granma expedition and I do not regret it, he said.
 
Almost sixty years after meeting Fidel, I am still under his command. He was and is my only boss, that was the pact between us.
 
In Tuxpan I was saying to myself, 'This boy is crazy,' because he was planing to embark along with other young people on a patched and rickety boat to liberate Cuba from suffering, he recalled.
 
Chavez was for his country and Latin America what Fidel is for Latin Americans for Latin American revolutionaries and since 1959, a reference of solidarity and anti-imperialism.
 
The only difference between them was that my boss, Fidel, physically disappeared with a work done, almost finished, while Chávez died just at the beginning of the construction of the Bolivarian Revolution, he considered.