R e f l e c t i o n s   o f   F i d e l   C a s t r o

• Reflections of Fidel
The insanities of our era
April.26.10
THERE is no alternative but to call things by their name. Anyone with minimal commonsense can observe without much effort how little realism remains in the current world.

• Reflections of Fidel
Sisterhood between the Bolivarian Republic and Cuba
April.19.10
I had the privilege of talking for three hours last Thursday 15th with Hugo Chávez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, who had the gentility to once again visit our country, this time arriving from Nicaragua.

• Reflections of Fidel
Health reform in the United States
March.25.10
BARACK Obama is a fanatical believer in the imperialist capitalist system imposed by the United States on the world. "God bless the United States," he ends his speeches.

• Reflections of Fidel
The dangers that are threatening us
March.8.10
THIS is not an ideological issue related to the irremediable hope that a better world is and must be possible.
It is known that homo sapiens has existed for approximately 200,000 years, equivalent to a minuscule space in the time that has passed since the first forms of elemental life on our planet emerged around three billion years ago.

• Reflections of Fidel
The latest meeting with Lula
March.2.10
I met him in Managua in July 1980, thirty years ago, during the commemoration of the first anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, thanks to my contacts with supporters of Liberation Theology, which were initiated in Chile when I visited President Allende in 1971.

• The Bolivarian Revolution and the Caribbean
February.8.10
I liked history, as most boys do. Wars as well, a culture that society sowed in male children. All the toys offered us were weapons.

• We are sending doctors, not soldiers
January.22.10
IN my "Reflection" of January 14, two days after the disaster in Haiti that destroyed that neighboring sister nation, I wrote: "In the field of healthcare and other areas, Cuba – despite being a poor and blockaded country – has been cooperating with the Haitian people for many years.

• Haiti is putting the spirit of cooperation to the test
January.18.10
THE news arriving from Haiti paints a picture of the tremendous chaos that was to be expected given the exceptional situation created by the disaster.

• The lesson of Haiti
January.15.10
TWO days ago, at almost six o’clock in the evening Cuban time and when, given its geographical location, night had already fallen in Haiti, television stations began to broadcast the news that a violent earthquake – measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale – had severely struck Port-au-Prince.

• The world half a century later
January.4.10
AS the Revolution celebrated its 51st anniversary two days ago, memories of that January 1st of 1959 came to mind. The outlandish idea that, after half a century — which flew by — we would remember it as if it were yesterday, never occurred to any of us.
 

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