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The Bolivarian Revolution and the
Antilles
Reflections by Comrade Fidel
From: Embassy of Cuba in Greece,
February 7, 2010
I was fond of History, as much as almost any other kid.
And I also liked wars, a sort of culture that society used to sow among
boys. All the toys we were given were toy guns.
Being a child I was sent to a city where no one ever took
me to the movies. Television did not exist then, and in the house where
I lived there was no radio. Imagination was my only resort.
At my first school as a boarding student I read in
wonderment about the Flood and Noah’s Ark. Afterwards I realized that
this was perhaps a vestige of the last climate change in the history of
our species that humanity preserved. Very likely this was the end of the
last glacial period, which supposedly took place thousands of years ago.
As was to be expected, further on I eagerly read the
history of Alexander, Cesar, Hannibal, Bonaparte and, of course, every
other book that fell into my hands about Maceo, Gomez, Agramonte and
other great soldiers who fought for our independence. I was not
cultured enough to understand what was that which underlay history.
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WE SEND DOCTORS, NOT SOLDIERS
Reflections by Comrade Fidel
From: Embassy of Cuba in Greece, Monday, 25 January 2010
In my Reflection of January 14, two days after the
catastrophe in Haiti, which destroyed that neighboring sister nation, I
wrote: “In the area of healthcare and others the Haitian people has
received the cooperation of Cuba, even though this is a small and
blockaded country.
Approximately 400 doctors and healthcare workers are
helping the Haitian people free of charge. Our doctors are working every
day at 227 of the 237 communes of that country. On the other hand, no
less than 400 young Haitians have been graduated as medical doctors in
our country. They will now work alongside the reinforcement that
traveled there yesterday to save lives in that critical situation. Thus,
up to one thousand doctors and healthcare personnel can be mobilized
without any special effort; and most are already there willing to
cooperate with any other State that wishes to save Haitian lives and
rehabilitate the injured.”
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The Threatening Dangers
Reflections by Comrade Fidel
Embassy of Cuba in Greece
March 9, 2010
It is not an ideological issue related to the definitive
hope that a better world is, and should be, possible.
It is a known fact that the homo sapiens has existed for
about 200 thousand years, which is no more than a tiny span of the time
passed since the emergence of the first basic forms of life on our
planet approximately three billion years ago.
The answers to the unfathomable mysteries of life and
nature have fundamentally been religious. It would be senseless to
pretend otherwise and I am convinced that it will forever be this way.
The deeper science delves into the explanation of universe, space, time,
matter and energy; the infinite galaxies and the theories of the origin
of the constellations and the stars; the atoms and the fractions of them
that made possible life and its briefness; the more questions man will
have in search of ever more complex and difficult rationalizations.
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COOPERATION SPIRIT IS PUT TO THE TEST IN HAITI
Reflections by Comrade Fidel
From: Embassy of Cuba in Greece, Monday, 15 January 2010
The news reported from Haiti describe a great chaos that
was to be expected, given the exceptional situation created in the
aftermath of the catastrophe.
At first, a feeling of surprise, astonishment and
commotion set in. A desire to offer immediate assistance came up in the
farthest places of the Earth. What assistance should be sent –and how-
to a Caribbean nation from China, India, Vietnam and other countries
that are tens of thousands of kilometers away? The magnitude of the
earthquake and the poverty that exists in that country generated at
first some ideas about probable needs, which gave rise to all types of
promises that are possible in terms of resources that later on are tried
to be conveyed through every possible way.
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A BRUTAL REPLY
Reflections by Comrade Fidel
April 12, 2007
George W.
Bush is undoubtedly the most genuine representative of a system of
terror forced on the world by the technological, economic and political
superiority of the most powerful country known to this planet. For this
reason, we share the tragedy of the American people and their ethical
values. The instructions for the verdict issued by Judge Kathleen
Cardone, of the El Paso Federal Court last Friday, granting Luis Posada
Carriles freedom on bail, could only have come from the White House.
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THE TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
Manuel E. Yepe
May 2010
The
ascent and notable expansion of the Tea Party and its actions in many
states in the U.S. bring about fear that fascism might become a reality
in the nation, according to the fears of the most pessimistic political
scientists.
It's
called the “Tea Party” in English, a meeting or a gathering to drink
tea. But the name recollects the significance of the so-called Boston
Tea Party during the American Revolution, the assault that was carried
out in 1773 by a group of citizens dressed as Indians in that city of
the then-English colony of Massachusetts on three British ships anchored
in port, as a protest against taxes on the importation of tea and the
monopoly of the British East India Company over this valued product.
Hundreds of chests containing tea were emptied into the water of the
bay.
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DISASTER CAPITALISM IN LATIN AMERICA
Manuel E. Yepe
May 2010
The
two great disasters that nature had in store recently for Haiti and
Chile, the no-less-sinister coup just a short time before in Honduras,
together with the reaction of the superpower to these shocking
situations, have raised justified fears that Latin America is fully
involved in the application of the principles of the doctrine of
disaster capitalism that writer, political scientist, and journalist
Naomi Klein has denounced with so much international recognition.
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MOURNFUL HUMOR
By Manuel E. Yepe
January 27, 2010
Around mid-January this year, I was surprised to receive
from an American friend of mine a
copy of a spoof of The
New York Times dated July 4, 2009.
Since it arrived out of the blue, I came within an inch
of tossing the outdated copy on top of the pile of old newspapers we use
at home to wrap up garbage. However, I decided to take a quick glance
through it first just in case there was something my friend in the U.S.
wanted me to read.
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THE SOCIALIST COURSE OF CUBAN CULTURE
Manuel E. Yepe
December 9,
2009
“The
marriage of communism with nationalism in Latin America provides the
greatest danger faced thus far by the region and by U.S. interests. U.S.
public and private institutions must get involved in educating community
leaders and the communications media about the nature of the
Marxist-Leninist strategy adapted by the nationalists to themes of
underdevelopment.”
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WHERE THE COUP IN HONDURAS COULD LEAD
Manuel E. Yepe
July 17,
2009
The events unleashed by the coup ousting Honduran
president José Manuel Zelaya have yet to produce a clear outcome;
nevertheless, the event is teaching the people of Latin America some
important lessons about how old issues will be handled in these new
times.
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THE LEGACY OF CHE GUEVARA
Manuel E. Yepe
March 10,
2009
An October 2007 article in The Wall Street Journal intended to deprecate
Ernesto “Che” Guevara on the 40th anniversary of his assassination in
Bolivia. Instead, the article was an unintentionally eloquent
description of his significance in the Americas.
The article, headlined “Forty years after, the shadow of Che still falls
over Latin America,” reveals why the empire pursued Che with so much
malice and assassinated him with so much hatred. Che was construed as
the “ideologue of communism and the armed revolution against the West in
the Third World,” too revolutionary even for Cuba, thus motivating Fidel
Castro to send his great revolutionary collaborator abroad to promote
the revolution in other countries.
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THE PARADOX OF NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
Manuel E. Yepe
May 2010
The
latest federal budget request submitted to Congress by President Obama
includes a large increase in spending for nuclear weapons. Such an
increase contradicts Obama's speech in Prague last April when he seemed
to signal a commitment to significant nuclear disarmament. Now it's a
question of whether Congress will reject the Obama budget request - a
strategy it used more than once to keep President George W. Bush from
pursuing new nuclear weapon programs.
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THE WAR AGAINST THE TRADE UNIONS
Manuel E. Yepe
December 5,
2008
Now that the United States has managed
to get a “different” president, some old conflicts begin to show
different nuances.
Wal-Mart, the U.S. giant that
operates retail chain-stores, mobilized all its store managers and
department supervisors in the country to warn that if Democrats won the
presidential election in November 2008, federal law would inevitably
change to make it easier for workers to unionize companies -- including
Wal-Mart.
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WHAT CUBANS EXPECT FROM OBAMA
Manuel E. Yepe
November
14, 2008
That a non-white, non-WASP American has been elected
president of the U.S. for the first time in history goes beyond the
superpower’s global policy or any consideration related to Obama’s skin
color or ethnic group. What matters is that it raises hopes for an end
of the ferocious hostilities toward the revolutionary project embraced
by our people as the crowning achievement of an independence struggle
started 140 years ago against Spanish colonialism.
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GUTIÉRREZ DISCOVERS THE CUBAN
DILEMMA
February 2,
2008
Vietnam and China are countries led by communists but
they are not anti-US like Cuba is. That is the reason why this Caribbean
island should be placed in the pantheon of nations under the most rigid
trade controls.
That was the explanation given by US Secretary of
Commerce Carlos Gutiérrez, addressing the United States Wheat
Association (USW) to its board meeting in the capital of that country on
February 12, 2008.
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THE FIRST THING IS RESPECT
Manuel E. Yepe
January 22,
2008
The degree to which the imperial syndrome blinds the
outlook of U.S. politicians of every leaning and level can be
appreciated in the present inauguration of a new government that was
called to rectify the errors made by the departing administration, which
have plunged the country into the worst discredit and unpopularity.
For many reasons, the incoming president is evidence of
the desire for change that ranks foremost among the citizens of that
nation.
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