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Fidel Castro: The
November 4th Elections
Havana - Cuban
Revolution leader Fidel
Castro published Tuesday
his reflections on the
elections in the United
States.
In his Granma article
entitled "The November
4th Elections," Fidel
Castro stated, "When
these views that I
sustain are published
tomorrow, nobody will
have time to say that I
wrote something that
could be used by any
candidate to advance his
campaign."
"I had to be, and I have
been, neutral in this
electoral competition.
It is not “interference
in the internal affairs
of the United States”,
as the State Department
would put it, as
respectful as it is of
other countries’
sovereignty, the Cuban
leader stressed.
REFLECTIONS BY COMRADE
FIDEL Published by the
Prensa Latina
THE NOVEMBER 4TH
ELECTIONS
Tomorrow will be a
significant day. The
world public will be
following the United
States elections there.
It is the most powerful
nation on Earth.
Actually, with less than
5% of the world
population it swallows
every year great amounts
of oil and gas,
minerals, raw materials,
consumer goods and
sophisticated products
brought from overseas.
Many of these,
particularly the fuels
and those extracted from
mines, are non
renewable.
It is the largest arms
producer and exporter.
Its industrial military
complex also has an
insatiable domestic
market. Its naval and
air forces are deployed
in scores of military
bases located in the
territory of other
nations. The United
States strategic
warhead-carrying
missiles can reach any
place in the world with
absolute precision.
A great number of the
cleverest minds in the
world are uprooted from
their original countries
and placed at the
service of the system.
It is a parasitical and
plundering empire.
It is a known fact that
the black population
introduced in the US
territory throughout
centuries of slavery is
the victim of a marked
racial discrimination.
The Democratic candidate
Obama is partly black;
the dark skin and
features of that race
are predominant in him.
He was able to study at
a higher education
center where he
graduated with
outstanding results. He
is surely more clever,
better educated and calm
than his Republican
adversary.
I’m analyzing tomorrow’s
elections when the world
is enduring a serious
financial crisis –the
worst since the 1930s—
among many others which
have seriously affected
the economy of many
nations in the course of
over three fourths of a
century.
The international media,
the political analysts
and commentators are
using part of their time
to discuss the issue.
Obama is considered the
best political speaker
of the United States in
the past decades. His
compatriot Toni
Morrison, a 1993 Nobel
Prize Laureate in
Literature, and the
first one from her
ethnic group born in the
United States who has
been awarded such prize
--an excellent author--
has called him the
future President and
poet of that nation.
I have been watching the
struggle between the
contenders. The black
candidate caused much
amazement with his
nomination in the face
of strong adversaries.
He has well articulated
ideas which he hammers
once and again into the
voters’ minds. He does
not hesitate to claim
that more than
Republicans or Democrats
they are all Americans,
the citizens he
qualifies as the most
productive in the world.
He says he will reduce
taxes for the middle
class, where he includes
practically everybody,
while he will completely
remove them for the
poorest and raise them
for the wealthiest. The
revenues, he claims,
will not the used to
bailout banks.
He insists repeatedly
that the ruinous
spending on Bush’s war
in Iraq will not be paid
by the American
taxpayers. He will put
an end to it and bring
the US troops back home.
Perhaps he is mindful of
the fact that that
country had nothing to
do with the terrorist
attacks of September 11,
2001. However, the blood
has been shed of
thousands of US troops,
injured or killed in
battle, and the lives
taken of over a million
people in that Muslim
nation. It was a war of
conquest imposed by the
empire seeking for oil.
In light of the current
financial crisis and its
consequences, the
American people are more
concerned over the
economy than the war in
Iraq. They are
anguishing over their
jobs, the safety of
their bank deposits and
their retirement funds,
and the fear of losing
the purchasing power of
their money and the
houses where they live
with their families.
They wish to have the
certainty that whatever
the circumstances they
will receive adequate
medical care and that
their children will
accede to higher
education.
Obama is challenging and
I think he has taken and
will still take great
risks in a country where
any extremist can
legally purchase a
sophisticated modern
weapon anywhere, as it
was the case in the
first half of the 18th
century in the west of
the United States. He
supports this system and
he will be get support
from it. The pressing
problems of the world
are not really a major
source of concern to
Obama, much less to the
candidate who as a war
pilot dropped tens of
tons of bombs on Hanoi
City, that is, more than
9,375 miles away from
Washington, ad this with
no remorse.
When last Thursday I
addressed a letter to
Lula, in addition to
what I already mentioned
in my Reflections of
October 31, I literally
wrote: “Racism and
discrimination have been
present in the American
society ever since its
birth, over two
centuries ago. Latin
Americans and blacks
have always been
discriminated against
there. Its citizens have
been brought up under
consumerism. Humanity is
objectively threatened
by its mass
extermination weapons.”
“The American people are
more concerned over the
economy that the Iraq
war. McCain is an old,
bellicose and uneducated
man; he is not very
smart and he is in poor
health.”
Finally, I said: “If my
estimates were wrong and
racism prevailed: if the
Republican candidate won
the Presidency, the
danger of a war would
increase and the
peoples’ opportunities
to progress would be
reduced. Nevertheless,
we need to fight and to
build awareness about
this, whoever it is who
wins this election.”
When these views that I
sustain are published
tomorrow, nobody will
have time to say that I
wrote something that
could be used by any
candidate to advance his
campaign. I had to be,
and I have been, neutral
in this electoral
competition. It is not
“interference in the
internal affairs of the
United States”, as the
State Department would
put it, as respectful as
it is of other
countries’ sovereignty.
Fidel Castro Ruz |
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