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At 19 years of age, with his diploma in hand, Fidel appears in the Colegio de Belen yearbook, with a singular comment, one could say a premonition: "He has managed to win the admiration and affection of all. He will study law and we have no doubt that he will fill the book of his life with brilliant pages. Fidel has what it takes and he will be an artist."
Fidel is always present, with his example, with his ideas and actions, in the country’s every heartbeat. In times of adversity and of times of victory.
Now, on his 95th birthday, in a 2021 full of challenges, a pandemic and a criminal blockade, the Comandante en jefe returns "on battle footing," in this great struggle for life, guiding the generation of continuity, correcting the course of the work we are constructing.
For Fidel, a Revolution could not limit to the change of the material living conditions of the population. Even if there is an obvious improvement of the majority’s situation, it would never be complete or lasting if it is not a cultural revolution, too. It has to change both the surroundings and the people themselves. For that reason, he said that a Revolution was the child of culture and ideas when he visited the Central University of Venezuela with Chavez.
For Fidel, a Revolution could not limit to the change of the material living conditions of the population. Even if there is an obvious improvement of the majority’s situation, it would never be complete or lasting if it is not a cultural revolution, too. It has to change both the surroundings and the people themselves. For that reason, he said that a Revolution was the child of culture and ideas when he visited the Central University of Venezuela with Chavez.
Thirty-two years have passed, but Cuba has not forgotten. On December 7, 1989, the remains of 2,289 combatants who gave their lives on internationalist missions in Africa were returned to the arms of the homeland, in an effort entitled Operation Tribute.
All the country’s cities received the remains of their prodigal sons, and honored to them in Pantheons of the Fallen established in all municipalities.
The book entitled simply Fidel by writer and journalist Katiuska Blanco Castiñeira, was presented December 4 at the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, the first work published by Ediciones Alejandro and the printing house El Cubano Libre, both affiliated with the recently inaugurated institution.
It seems that Girón was recorded in the homeland’s history as a permanent warning to those who dream of taking possession of Cuba.
As time passes, the lesson left by the victory achieved in the Ciénaga de Zapata, along the Bay of Pigs in the southern reaches of Matanzas, becomes even more evident. Our indomitable people were able to confront and defeat the invaders, despite the much greater power of their weapons and imperialist support.
La insurrección armada de los marinos revolucionarios en Cienfuegos, junto a luchadores del Movimiento 26 de Julio y numerosos pobladores el 5 de septiembre de 1957, derrochó heroísmo y sangre desde el amanecer hasta la noche.
Con más de 50 mártires caídos en combate o asesinados por la tiranía de Fulgencio Batista (1952-1958), enterrados en fosas comunes, estos hechos siempre reciben el homenaje del pueblo cubano, como ahora, 65 años después.
As a child, he saw him as a promising young man. Energetic, as boys tend to be, Raúl would only receive criticism, but Fidel felt that there was something more in him, a future; that is why he took him under his protection, not to pamper him or applaud his hazing, but to see him grow as a good man.
The Cuban Revolution showed that it was possible to change Latin America's dependence on the big Western news agencies, and Prensa Latina was the first step in that direction, according to US historian Renata Keller.
In this regard, the associate professor at the University of Nevada recalled the leading role of Fidel Castro, who, even before the revolutionary triumph in 1959, acknowledged the importance of international media to confront the anti-Cuba campaigns by the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI).
Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution, sent his greetings to those who promote the Urban Agriculture Movement in the country, an idea of which he was the promoter and driving force 36 years ago.
This was made known by the member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, at the national event of that program, held at the Zeoponico in this city, which highlighted the results of this province in the current year.
The flag of the three blue stripes and the lone star was raised, by the friends of Cuba in the world, in the constant actions against the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States more than 60 years ago.
In the year 2023, the solidarity groups demanded the lifting of all coercive measures, the exclusion of Cuba from the spurious list of countries sponsoring terrorism, the normalization of relations between the two countries and the possibility of greater bilateral exchange.