Since the emblematic document History will Absolve Me, the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, showed a constant worry over the economy and its development, recall specialists today.
His thoughts were integrated by marxist theory together with Marti's ethics, as from that combination arose his confrontation with the restrictive economic and commercial measures of the United States against Cuba for over 50 years.
From there came many of his most significant frases compiled by the encyclopedic website on Cuba Ecured (ecured.cu) where a group of his most important ideas are exposed.
That site says Fidel showed the abyss of inequality that separated the development levels of industrialized countries and the underdeveloped ones, economic phenomena that continues to enlarge the gap.
He said the foreign debt became an obstacle to development and described the fact as the most modern form of neocolonial dependence for underdeveloped countries.
He clarified that fact makes unequal exchange worse and deepens protectionism, leading to the reduction in a drastic manner of the external financial flows for development.
Consequently, he predicted that the payment of the foreign debt cannot be made nor can our countries resist it and that it is an economic, political and moral impossible.
One of his most emblematic phrases, repeated over the years, is that 'Pay the ecological debt and not the foreign debt. Disappear hunger and not man'.
He also said on another occasion that unequal exchange ruins peoples, and thus exported inflati8on ruins the poor peoples.
In that panorama that conveys calamities, above all to nations of Latin America, another of his most recurrent phrases says: 'The financial resources received by developing countries are not enough! and should be increased !.
The war and its effects on peoples had a significant space in the problem of arms trade and its negative impact. On this issue he referred that expenses on weapons are irrational and funds used in this trade should be destined to development.
Many are the issues approached by the leader from the point of view of the economy, as is the case that the predominant international monetary system is in bankruptcy and should be changed. About these topics, his versatility is abundant, above all the warning of the economic abyss between rich nations and those who want to develop.
His insistence on this problem was engraved in the minds of many generations, surprisingly updated, above all in moments of search for peace in Colombia and othyer parts of the world.
That is why his phrase to be remembered reads: 'Fight without rest for Peace, to improve international relations, to stop the arms race, to drastically reduce military expenditures and demand that a part of these substantial funds are dedicated to develop the Third World'.