“And when justice reigns, there will be no revenge. Justice has to prevail today to avoid further attempts of assassination against anyone; and as justice reigns, there will be neither revenge nor hatred. We shall exile hatred from the Republic like an evil shadow that ambition bequeathed to us...”
Quotes
“Cuba will not be intimidated!, Cuba will not recede!, the Revolution will not stop!, the Revolution will continue its unshakable path! That is our promise, not to those who died, because to die for the homeland is to live, but to the comrades who will always remain in our memories. They will always remain, not in the memory of a man, or men, but in the only memory that can never be erased: the memory in the heart of a people.”
“The bandits, the international gangsters would be inevitably defeated. Don’t forget that we are in a trench, and that trench has been attacked, that they are trying to mine that trench, that they are trying to introduce the weapons for the assassination plots here, the explosives for sabotage and for crime; so we have to be on guard, as it’s appropriate for the soldiers in the first trench in the world in the fight against Imperialism. ”
“You know that the tactic, one of the favorite tactics of imperialism, is the assassination of revolutionary leaders. Therefore, we have to live aware of that, and do not give in to it, don’t pay it too much attention.”
“Alfa 66, a notorious organization of counter revolutionaries in Miami (is the) organizer, in complicity with the CIA, of assassination plots using potassium cyanide and silencers… Why do they (the CIA) want to prepare so many assassination plots and other things? Now, the thesis of the CIA is that Castro has to be eliminated to achieve moving the Revolution backward, changing the line, achieving that Cuba takes a more moderate position —and in this Alfa, Johnson, CIA, Faría, micro factionalists, the political mafia coincide. And they are illusions. ”
“You will remember how nearly every night aircraft came parachuting arms shipments; you will remember the tens of times when they tried to send them the most modern explosives through our coasts, and they tried to send them all kind of weapons…And the countless assassination plots together with that: assassination attempts on the leaders of the Revolution, conspiracies, plots… In brief, there were so many attempts that we have to feel admiration —how else can you explain it? — that the leaders of the Revolution continue alive. I would say that the leaders of the Revolution are alive today, first of all, because of the hard, intelligent, brave and capable work done by the combatants of the Ministry of Interior.”
“Imperialism, capitalism, fascism, neocolonialism, racism, man’s brutal exploitation of man in all its forms and manifestations, is approaching its end in humanity’s history, and their maddened lackeys know it; that is why their reactions are ever more desperate, more hysterical, more cynical, more impotent. Only that can explain such repugnant and absurd crimes as the one in Barbados.”.
“The CIA participated directly in the destruction of the Cubana Airlines plane in Barbados.The must repugnant aspect of this case is the use of mercenaries who, for money, are capable of cutting off in a few seconds the precious lives of 73 defenseless persons, people who had been their fellow passengers in the plane a few minutes earlier”.
“I remember when I visited Chile during Allende’s time, that they were organizing attempts of assassination during the 20-days tour, even at a certain moment, there was a camera in front of me, which had the weapons inside. I had spoken before cameras which have weapons; but they are not fanatics, they are not fundamentalists, they are mercenaries, and mercenaries want to live to enjoy the payment they receive, so, on that occasion when they were with the camera in front of me, they didn’t dare to press the shutter release of the weapons. ”
“In fact, when they (terrorists) are organizing a lot of plans of such a nature, instead of being sad, I’m happy, because a challenge is what I love most. They know that I like challenges, they know that I’m not going to walk over there when they are here; I’m going to walk this side, as a matter of principles, a matter of honor. And many times, I’ll go there, close to them, and I talk to them, and discuss; but they don’t have arguments, they don’t have ideas to discuss, and many times, or nearly never or never, they have the courage to do things. ”
The enemies never stop in their determination to destroy us. There are two conceptions: those of the elements of the extreme right in U.S politics, who dream about strangulating us through a more iron-fisted economic blockade, if that were possible, and wipe us off the surface of the earth by any means. They are those who promote laws like the Helms-Burton Act, well-known and analyzed by our people, and other draconian measures. They are those who want to destroy us from outside.
The other conception is that of those who want to penetrate us, making us soften, creating all kinds of counter revolutionary organizations and destabilizing the country, no matter what the consequences might be. There is a complete theory prepared through a program designed for that aim. These people want to exert an influence through wide exchanges with different sectors which they consider as permeable; providing juicy scholarships, dazzling us with their millionaire institutions, their technologies, and their centers for social research. They don’t authorize U.S people to travel, to know and rest in Cuba; but they are ready to send sociologists, philosophers, historians, Cubanologists, English professors and other academicians to our universities to "illuminate" us. But, of course, never in the world, send a professor of cybernetics, computer or other branch of the technology who wasn’t in correspondence with the ideology and could be of some utility to the country. That’s the so called the Side Two of the Torricelli Act. Those are who want to destroy us from inside.
There are many great and noble U.S people in all the spheres, including businessmen, who don’t take part in any of these conceptions.
Meanwhile, in the U.S territory -- and this is very serious –terrorist acts against the people and vital areas of the economy, are actively organized and arranged and they are working frenetically on assassination plots against the leaders of the Revolution once more. The main center for such actions is the so called Cuban-American National Foundation. It’s absolutely impossible that the CIA and the FBI do not know about these complots when it’s supposed that they have those organizations penetrated because many of their members have been related to them.
These plots are easier at present with the opening of our country to tourism and the possibility of travel in both directions that exists between Cuba and the United States, and the introduction of means by several ways to carry them out is more feasible.
Our security bodies are on the alert with regards to these activities and they work on the prevention of such events.
We don’t talk without evidence, we are warning them in time and we hope that nobody will regret later the rigor that the revolutionary laws use to punish these crimes, and do not try to appeal to the generosity of the Revolution.
In addition, there are more than a thousand hours of weekly broadcasts by radio, inciting from the U.S, encouraging the realization of sabotage, activities against the economy and the assassination of political leaders.
It’s absolutely disgraceful that after the crime in Oklahoma, acts of terrorisms against Cuba will be organized and try to be carried out from the United States.
What has been said so far gives an idea of how hard our struggle is and will be. In addition, take into account that the United States is facing an electoral process, and the elements of the extreme Right, who control at present the majority of the U.S Congress, aspire not only to sweep away the social measures originated in Roosevelt’s time; but also to occupy the Government of the United States with all the consequences that this will have for the world.
“Nearly 1 000 hours weekly are broadcast from the United States to Cuba, promoting subversion, sabotages to the economy, assassination plots. This modest person you see here, has the privilege –and I believe the Church has something to do in this matter—of having survived hundreds of assassination plots. I think that prayers by you, or prayers by many of you, have been present in that result; something has to be the reason, because, how else can it be possible? ”