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blindpig
08-13-2015, 12:06 PM
Reality and dreams
The leader of the Cuban Revolution insists that we will never stop struggling for peace and the well-being of all human beings, for every inhabitant on the planet regardless of skin color or national origin.

Author: Fidel Castro Ruz | internet@granma.cu
august 13, 2015 09:08:08
Writing is a way to be useful if you believe that our long-suffering humanity must be better, and more fully educated, given the incredible ignorance in which we are all enveloped, with the exception of researchers who in the sciences seek satisfactory answers. This is a word which implies in a few letters its immense content.

All of us in our youth heard talk at some point about Einstein, in particular after the explosion of the atomic bombs which pulverized Hiroshima and Nagasaki, putting an end to the cruel war between the United States and Japan.

When those bombs were dropped, after the war unleashed by the attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Empire had already been defeated. The United States, whose territory and industries remained removed from the war, became the country with the greatest wealth and the best weaponry on Earth, in a world torn apart, full of death, the wounded and hungry.

The Soviet Union and China together lost more than 50 million lives, along with enormous material damage. Almost all of the gold in the world landed in the vaults of the United States. Today it is estimated that the entirety of this country’s gold reserves reached 8,133.5 tons of this metal. Despite that, tearing up the Bretton Woods accords they signed, the United States unilaterally declared that it would not fulfill its duty to back the Troy ounce with the value in gold of its paper money.

The measure ordered by Nixon violated the commitments made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. According to a large number of experts on the subject, the foundation of a crisis was created, which among other disasters threatens to powerfully batter the economy of this model of a country. Meanwhile, Cuba is owed compensation equivalent to damages, which have reached many millions of dollars, as our country has denounced throughout our interventions in the United Nations, with irrefutable arguments and facts.

As has been expressed with clarity by Cuba’s Party and government, to advance good will and peace among all the countries of this hemisphere and the many peoples who are part of the human family, and thus contribute to the survival of our species in the modest place the universe has conceded us, we will never stop struggling for peace and the well-being of all human beings, for every inhabitant on the planet regardless of skin color or national origin, and for the full right of all to hold a religious belief or not.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing, that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world, is what I wish for all. To those who share all or part of these same ideas, or superior ones along the same lines, I thank you, dear compatriots.

Fidel Castro Ruz

August 13, 2015

1:23 a.m.

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http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2015-08-13/reality-and-dreams

blindpig
08-13-2015, 12:08 PM
Presidents of Venezuela and Nicaragua praise example of Fidel
“Fidel has written and will continue to write a great history for many centuries,” stated Maduro. Ortega described the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution as a great teacher

Author: Prensa Latina | internet@granma.cu
august 13, 2015 09:08:52
Caracas.—Venezuelan President, Ni*colás Maduro, praised historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro’s work in defense of humanity’s just causes, according to the Ministry of Communication and Information’s website.

During his television program En Contacto con Maduro (In contact with Maduro), broadcast every Tuesday evening, the Head of State called the Cuban leader the “revolutionary commander of Latin America and the Caribbean.”

According got PL, the leader took advantage of the opportunity to send Fidel Castro an embrace and convey the support of the Venezuelan people, on the occasion of his 89th birthday (August 13).

“Fidel has written and will continue to write great history for many centuries.”

After congratulating Fidel, Maduro shared images of the Cuban leader together with late President Hugo Chávez with the public; describing the leaders as giants and builders of a Latin American reality which must be defended, now more than ever.

Among Cuba and Venezuela’s achievements he mentioned the solidification of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America and the energy cooperation mechanism Pe*trocaribe – regional integration initiatives founded on cooperation, equality and solidarity.

Meanwhile, yesterday, Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortega, sent a message of congratulations to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, on his 89th birthday, in which he emphasize that “you belong to the land of the wise, the inspired and inspirational, of the great maestros, pioneers, founders, of so many personal processes of light, life and truth.”

Expressed in the letter, also signed by director of the Citizenry and Communication Council, Rosario Mu*rillo, were feelings of admiration, respect and recognition for Fidel.

With you Fidel, we inherit a Revolution in motion, in the Great Homeland, Our America and the Caribbean, the text adds.

http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2015-08-13/presidents-of-venezuela-and-nicaragua-praise-example-of-fidel

blindpig
08-13-2015, 12:10 PM
Evo Morales expresses his admiration and respect for the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution
“I am very pleased and happy to accompany our brother Fidel Castro on his birthday,” the Bolivian President stated on arriving in Havana

Author: laura Bécquer Paseiro | laura@granma.cu
august 13, 2015 09:08:46

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The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, on his arrival in Havana this Wednesday. Photo: Ricardo López Hevia
“I am very pleased and happy to accompany our brother Fidel Castro on his birthday,” the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, stated on arriving in Havana on Wednesday night to participate in the celebrations for the 89th birthday of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.

Speaking to the press on arrival at the José Martí International Airport, the President stressed his admiration and respect for Fidel and said he had learned much from him.

Morales described the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana as “a triumph of the Cuban people and the unity of the entire world.”

“The world is with Cuba,” he noted, as he offered a brief history surrounding the issue.

Regarding the recent statement by the ALBA-TCP Political Council, which met on August 10 in Caracas, he explained that “our duty as governments is to defend others who are being attacked” economically and politically.

He elaborated on the example of the local right-wing and their attacks against the government of President Rafael Correa and the Citizens' Revolution in Ecuador.

Our duty is to defend the democratic revolutions on the continent, Morales stressed.

The Head of State was accompanied by Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca. He was received on Cuban soil by Deputy Foreign Minister Ana Teresita González Fraga and the Bolivian Ambassador to Cuba, Palmiro León Soria.

http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2015-08-13/evo-morales-expresses-his-admiration-and-respect-for-the-historic-leader-of-the-cuban-revolution

blindpig
08-14-2015, 11:39 AM
Some photos from a previous birthday courtesy Cassad

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Dhalgren
08-14-2015, 02:26 PM
Happy birthday to Mr. Castro. We have so few great men in our world. He is an international treasure.