We are Fidel

Havana, Cuba. -Three years ago Cuba felt a deep shake. Shocked, she received the news of Fidel’s departure for immortality, well won by the legacy of an ideology that will be a compass for all times.

The destiny wanted it to be precisely on the 60th anniversary of the departure of the yacht Granma from the Mexican port of Tuxpan with the mission of its expeditionaries to initiate the decisive Revolution for the liberation and independence of Cuba. And that historical coincidence touches everyone because of its symbolism.

Our country – so small geographically – had the honor of having given birth to a political leader like Fidel Castro, capable of setting the course of universal history. He lived intensely.

He knew of victories and setbacks at the head of a true Revolution, always on the move to try to make the dream of a just and equitable world a reality.

Enduring lessons

Fidel left in Cuba a vital revolutionary process, solid, attached to his thought of sagacious political strategist, always put the long-range lights.

He had full confidence in the unity of the people to forge dreams in the midst of the most adverse circumstances due to the aberrant aggressiveness of the US empire. And this people, indomitable as its leader, maintains the course firmly because it assumes the commitment to its work.

“We will sail alone, in an ocean of capitalism,” said Fidel when the Soviet Union and European socialism collapsed and many predicted the end of the Cuban Revolution. The blow was brutal, but it resisted. And the island multiplied its most generous solidarity with the dispossessed of the world.

There is much to learn from the Cuban leader’s teaching. In his ideas are many answers to understand the imperatives of these times.

(Taken from Radio Reloj in Spanish)

Written by Radio Grito de Baire