Fidel Castro: Change,
But In The US
Havana (Prensa Latina)
Cuban President Fidel
Castro condemned the US
imperial policy and
alerted of the need of a
change in that country.
In his Friday article
entitled "What I wrote
Tuesday, February 19,"
the Cuban Revolution
leader stated, "I agree,
change, but in the
United States. Cuba
changed a long ago and
will continue its
dialectic course. We
will never return to
past!, our people say."
"Breaking the secret of
his silent struggle,
Marti denounced the
voracious and
expansionist empire,
already discovered and
described by his
brilliant intelligence,
more than a century
after the revolutionary
declaration of
independence by the 13
colonies," he noted.
Fidel Castro stresses in
his article that it is
in Cuba's annexation to
the United States what
the adversary basically
think when they talk
about a change in Cuba.
REFLECTIONS BY THE
COMMANDER IN CHIEF:
WHAT I WROTE TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 19
That Tuesday there was
no fresh international
news. The modest message
I wrote to the Cuban
people on Monday,
February 18, was widely
and easily disseminated.
As from 11 o’clock in
the morning I started to
receive concrete news.
The previous night I had
slept like never before.
I had a clear conscience
and I had promised
myself a vacation. The
days of tension,
awaiting the proximity
of February 24, had left
me exhausted.
Today I will not say a
single word about
persons very dear to me
in Cuba and in the world
who in many different
ways expressed their
emotions. I also
received a great number
of opinions collected in
the streets through
reliable methods, which
almost without exception
and in a very
spontaneous way conveyed
the deepest feelings of
solidarity. Someday I
shall discuss that
issue.
Right now I am focusing
on the adversary. I
enjoyed watching the
embarrassment of every
United States
presidential candidate.
One by one they all felt
compelled to exact
urgent demands from Cuba
to avoid the risk of
losing a single vote.
Anyone could have
thought that I was a
Pullitzer Prize winner
interviewing them on
very sensitive political
and even personal issues
for the CNN from Las
Vegas, a place where the
logics of the games of
chance prevails, and
that should be humbly
visited by anyone
running for President.
Fifty years of blockade
seemed too little to the
favorites. Change!
Change! Change! They all
cried in unison.
I agree. Change! But,
inside the United
States. Cuba changed
long ago and will now
follow a dialectical
path.
We will never go back to
the past! Cries our
people.
Annexation! Annexation!
Annexation! Responds the
adversary. That is what
it really means when it
speaks about change.
José Martí, unveiling
the secret of his silent
struggle, denounced the
voracious and
expansionistic empire
that his brilliant
intelligence had
discovered and described
more than one century
after the enactment of
the revolutionary
Declaration of
Independence of the
Thirteen Colonies.
The end of a historical
period is not the same
as the beginning of the
end of an unsustainable
system.
All of a sudden, the
weakened European
powers, allied to that
system, are exacting the
same demands. In their
opinion, the time has
come to dance to the
music of democracy and
freedom, which since the
times of Torquemada,
they never really knew.
The colonization and
neo-colonization of
entire continents, from
which they get energy,
raw materials, and cheap
labor, are a moral
discredit to them.
An illustrious Spanish
personality, once an
impeccable socialist and
minister of Culture, who
for some time now and
even today has been
advocating for the war
and the use of weapons,
is the synthesis of
sheer nonsense. Kosovo
and its unilateral
declaration of
independence are now
hunting them as an
impertinent nightmare.
In Iraq and Afghanistan,
men of flesh and blood
wearing the United
States and NATO uniforms
continue to die. The
memories of the USSR,
which disintegrated in
part because of the
interventionist
adventure in
Afghanistan, are chasing
the Europeans like a
shadow.
Bush senior endorses
McCain as his candidate,
while Bush junior
declares in some country
of Africa –where man
originated yesterday and
which is a martyr
continent today- where
no one knows what he was
doing, that my message
was the beginning of the
road towards freedom in
Cuba, that is to say,
the annexation decreed
by his government in a
huge and thick text.
The day before, TV
networks from all over
the world showed a group
of state-of-the-art
bombers performing
spectacular maneuvers,
giving full guarantees
that any bombs could be
launched, that the
aircraft that carried
them will not be
detected by radars, and
that this will not be
considered a war crime.
A protest raised by some
important countries had
to do with the imperial
idea of testing a new
weapon under the pretext
of avoiding the possible
fall on the territory of
a foreign country of a
spy satellite, one of
the many artifacts that
the United States has
put into the planet
orbit for military
purposes.
I had thought not to
write a reflection at
least in 10 days, but I
had no right to remain
silent for so long. We
need to open ideological
fire against them.
I wrote this on Tuesday
at 3:35 pm. Yesterday, I
reviewed it and I will
deliver it today,
Thursday, in the
afternoon. I have begged
that my reflections be
published on the second
page or any other of our
newspapers, never on the
front page, and that
brief summaries of them
should be published in
other media in case they
are long.
I am now fully devoted
to the effort of casting
my full-slate vote in
support of the
Presidency of the
National Assembly and
the new State Council,
as well as on the right
way to do it.
I thank all readers for
having waited so
patiently.
Fidel Castro Ruz
February 21, 2008
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