Delgado Calvo, Yeilén

In 1972, in Manzanillo, a young poet wrote: In Quito, an old woman / almost a hundred years old / after seeing Fidel / embrace her beard, her smile / her heart full of the people /—a whole tremor / an incredible ember in her ashes— / told her grandson / that she could die now / that she was happy now / because she had seen / the man*.

"Let me tell you first of all that the Revolution defends freedom, that the Revolution has brought the country a great many freedoms, that the Revolution cannot by its very nature be an enemy of freedom; that if anyone is worried that the Revolution will stifle their creative spirit, that worry is unnecessary, that worry has no reason to exist".

In 1985, a foreign journalist asked Fidel: "What would you like your legacy to be? How would you like your achievements over the years to be interpreted?"
 

Through an intimate and reflective lens, the exhibition All the Glory of the World unveils the multifaceted persona of the Commander-in-Chief

A colleague writes about Fidel: "He never accepted defeat;" and the thought goes to the reasons that made that characteristic of his, far from sterile obstinacy, a condition to turn utopia into palpable matter.