Response: Message from the Commander in Chief: Fidel Castro Ruz =2-18-2008 +

2-19-08 @8:56 PM ~
Gracias Doctor Linda ~ Thank you for your kind words. I was engaged in a heavy prayer this morning before I turned on the TV and my computer-Internet connection.

For sure, Fidel and Che Guevara were the two pillars of the Cuban Revolution. Some major mistakes were made over the years by the Castro Regime, but Cuba was and is able to protect the integrity of the Cuban revoluiton.

Think of all the counter-revolutions, coup-de-etats and genocidal murders the U.S.A. war machine and its spies were able to get away with these last few decades in other Central American and Latin American countries. The constant drain and suffering of the Cuban embargo and the loss of the Soviet Union were and are major sources of mass suffering by the Cuban people.

Nonetheless, Cuba remains Fidel's Cuba. Indeed, critical tactical mistakes were made over the decades but Cuba has endured. Cuba is still a model socialist country right on the border of U.S. Imperialism.

Chapter Four - Guerillaism and Marxism

http://socialistalternative.org/publications/che/

Of course, in general, the laziness of Left-wing thinking in the USA failed to issue any kind of consistent criticism of the Cuban Regime and in my own little way I am partly at fault. I do not see the logic or reason of not letting individuals leave Cuba if that is what they want to do. Get rid of the dead counter-revolutionary weight in a revolutionary situation.

Then, I have never set foot on Cuban soil, though there was a time when I helped to recruit some people for the Venceremos Brigade to Cuba in the late 70's. I suspect it all looks different up close and personal.

Que Viva Fidel! ~Companero Peta

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Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

May he have an honorable and peaceful retirement in the time he has left. He's sick, probably not much time.

Linda

"Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan" <sacranative@yahoo.com> wrote:

Que Viva Che Fidel! Venceremos!

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/febrero/mar19/mensaje-i.html

Havana. February 19, 2008

Message from the Commander in Chief ..... This is not my farewell to you. My only wish is to fight as a soldier in the battle of ideas. I shall continue to write under the heading of 'Reflections by comrade Fidel.' It will be just another weapon you can count on. Perhaps my voice will be heard. I shall be careful. Thanks. Fidel Castro Ruz February 18, 2008 5:30 p.m.

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