“I can assure you that so many assassination plots have been prepared against us that I could give one to each of the people present here; I don’t want it by no means; but it explains a little the miracle of having me talking to you, because I should be in the hereafter according to the calculation of probabilities; however, I assure you that it won’t be hell. I won’t go into discussing beliefs, and I won’t go either to purgatory because we have already passed through a long purgatory for a long time. In heaven, for sure; but the fact is that we haven’t sought heaven for us. I can tell you that we have wanted to seek heaven for our people. That has been our fight. ”
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“Everybody knows that dozens of assassination plots were organized, apart from the induced plans, because there are direct plans in which the CIA participated, and there are induced plans where an entire campaign was conducted, a advocacy that any crazy person opposed the Revolution, could commit assassination; however, plans that were directly organized by them, and the groups at their service, dozens and dozens of plans. Until a Commission from the U.S Congress carried out investigations and confirmed a number of all those plans. Then, it was not Cuba saying that. If Cuba said something, it was up to Cuba; but if was the commission of senators of the United States who said that, then, it was indeed a recognized fact.”
“I believe I must hold the dubious record for having been the target and objective of the most attack plans than any other politician in any other country or at any other time.”
"When the Revolution triumphs in Cuba on January 1st, 1959, almost 15 years after the explosion of the first nuclear weapons, and we proclaim an Agrarian Reform Act based on the principle of national sovereignty, consecrated by the blood of millions of combatants who died in that war, the United States response was a program of illegal deeds and terrorist attacks against the Cuban people, signed by the President of the United States himself, Dwight D. Eisenhower".
"And so, in the farewell to the people who have died today, to those soldiers, to those workers, I don’t have any other idea of saying good-bye than the idea which symbolizes this fight and represents what our people are today. Rest in peace together, workers and soldiers together, together in their tombs as they fought together, as they died together and as we are willing to die together "