Media reproduce today some assessments expressed by important personalities from different spheres about the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, who turns 87 years old today.
"I want to pay tribute to Fidel and his long journey for our peoples, waking us Fidel is a soldier, a dreamer, a certainly example for all of us and for generations of Latin American, Caribbean and fighters in the world," Granma newspaper publishes, quoting late Venezuela President Hugo Chavez.
Chavez, who died on March 5 after a battle against cancer, stressed that the revolutionary leader can show his face with full and absolute moral integrity, not only to the Cubans, but also all the peoples of the planet.
For me, Fidel (Castro) is a father, a partner, a master of the perfect strategy, he is still on the front line of battle, he has never been gone or will not give it up, the daily noted.
"From the trenches of ideas, this great father of the revolutionaries of our America continues guiding us. His word is, more than ever, necessary and illuminating, now when the empire strikes back," Chavez said quoted by Granma.
Despite all his genius, of all history he embodies, he has achieved to feel us his brother, he is a man who puts his life on the basis of utopia, which he will never find his prime in this life because he believes that heaven to earth is possible, Brazilian teologist Frei Betto said, quoted by Cubadebate website.
Nobody has ever given me the impression of a whole thing, a full character, in all aspects, in each of his phrases, disappeared muralist Oswaldo Guayasamin said.
The late Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda said that whoever is not with Cuba, with its revolution, with Fidel Castro, is on the side of shame and betrayal.
If the Cuban Revolution would vanish, we will be wiped off the face of the earth.
Fidel Castro is a man who embodies the Revolution itself as such, and is now a symbol that has a value outside the human being, out of daily work, Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar said.