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Let us march on this perfidious
and provocative office, as we shall march off to
fight against any aggressor
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Fidel exposes the objectives that the US government
is ‘deliberately’ seeking with its new
provocations*:
Address given by President Fidel
Castro Ruz to the people of Cuba, the noble people
of the United States and international public
opinion, at the beginning of the march of the
combative people on the US Interests Section (USIS),
January 24, 2006, Year of the Energy Revolution in
Cuba.
(Transcript: Council of State)
They
have activated the billboard; how brave those
cockroaches are! It seems like little Mr. Bush gave
them their orders (Laughter).
Dear
compatriots:
At
the beginning of the march on the perfidious and
provocative office of the empire, I should like to
reiterate what I said on Sunday at the end of my
words to the heroic people of our beloved homeland,
the noble people of the United States and
international public opinion:
“The
government of the United States is deliberately
seeking the following objectives:
First: To release terrorist Luis Posada Carriles,
whom the authorities of that country – including the
father of the current president – trained and
utilized to commit monstrous crimes against the
people of Cuba. This repugnant character was
recruited in 1961 and trained since then to fulfill
special missions in the mercenary Bay of Pigs
invasion; subsequently trained to commit repugnant
acts of terrorism against Cuba, for which he
received sterling instruction together with Orlando
Bosch, and then amnestied by Bush Sr. when he was
president. He was also trained to participate in
Operation Condor, an international terrorist
organization that committed odious crimes against
Latin American figures; he was the organizer and
mastermind of the sabotage in full flight off
Barbados of the Cubana Aviation passenger plane on
October 6, 1976, which cost the lives of 73 people.
He was sprung by the CIA from prison in Venezuela on
August 18, 1985; immediately linked to the dirty war
on Nicaragua by supplying weapons from El Salvador
and transporting drugs to the United States. Luis
Posada Carriles has always maintained close links
with the U.S. intelligence agencies and was funded
by governments in that country and, for more than 40
years, utilized via the Cuban-American Foundation in
assassination attempts on the Cuban president. He
was set free due to moves by the current U.S.
president via a pardon signed by the then president
of Panama, Mireya Moscoso, on August 26, 2004. He
was taken under U.S. protection to a Central
American country, he was authorized to clandestinely
enter U.S. territory, which he did between March
18-20, 2005 aboard the yacht Santrina crewed
by the notorious terrorist Santiago Alvarez,
strangely enough now in prison for arms running and
serious violations of the U.S. security laws. Nobody
in the world can deny these truths.
Second: The current U.S. government has totally
failed in its plans to isolate and economically
strangle Cuba, is not resigned to that failure and
is growing dangerously desperate.
THIRD: The U.S. government has done everything
possible to satisfy the wishes of the Cuban-American
terrorist mafia, which took President George W. Bush
to the disputed presidency of that country via fraud
in Florida.
Fourth: President Bush and his government are
committed to the macabre plan of transition for
Cuba, a gross interference in the sovereignty of our
country, which would lead it to centuries of
backwardness.
Fifth: The U.S. government has adopted all measures
to deprive Cuba of totally legitimate income by
blocking the sending of remittances and by having
recourse to the inhuman procedure of forbidding or
creating maximum difficulties for residents of that
origin to make family visits.
Sixth: As a result of pressure by the Cuban-American
mafia, the U.S. government proposes to overtly
violate the Migratory Agreements with Cuba as one of
its first steps.
Seventh: The U.S. government is seeking pretexts to
prevent at all costs the sale of agricultural
products to Cuba, which has been taking place in
growing volume without our country failing to pay
one cent on the dot for five years, something that
that government did not believe possible for a
nation harassed and blockaded.
Eighth: The U.S. government, which is against the
decision adopted by President Carter on May 30,
1977, proposes to force a rupture of the current
minimal diplomatic links with Cuba. The gross
provocations in which it is engaging from its
Interests Section in Havana do not have and cannot
have any other proposition.
The
Bush government is well aware that no government in
the world would accept such a perverse abuse of its
dignity and sovereignty.
The
conduct and the response of Cuba in the face of the
empire’s provocation will be totally peaceful, but
we will strike with all our moral force and are even
prepared to respond with all our weapons and spill
the last drop of our blood to repel any aggression
that might come from the mutinous and brutal empire
that is threatening us.
Nobody should forget for one second that magnificent
promise of General Antonio Maceo: “Whomsoever tries
to seize Cuba will come away with the dust of its
blood-soaked soil, if he does not perish in the
attempt.”
I
will be observing this march together with the
impassioned young pioneers and students who, from
the Anti-Imperialist Tribunal just up there, are
encouraging our valiant and combative people who are
marching today against that perfidious and
provocative office as they will march off to fight
against any aggressor.
¡Patria o Muerte!
¡Venceremos!
*Referring to an electronic billboard located in the
U.S. Interests Section building with evidently
provocative anti-Cuba messages.
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