Articles by Fidel Castro

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The Birthday
Fidel Castro Ruz – CounterPunch, 22 Aug 2016

16 Aug 2016 – Tomorrow I will turn 90 years old. I was born in a territory called Birán, in the eastern region of Cuba… Fidel Castro pens a column about the past, present and future on his 90th birthday.

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Fidel Castro Speaks at Cuban Congress, Invokes Communist Spirit
Fidel Castro Ruz - teleSUR, 25 Apr 2016

The leader of the Cuban Revolution gave a rare public speech during the closure of the seventh Congress of the Communist Party. “Perhaps, the greatest danger hanging over the earth today derives from the destructive power of modern weaponry which could undermine the peace of the planet and make human life on earth’s surface impossible.”

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Brother Obama
Fidel Castro Ruz – Granma, 4 Apr 2016

Nobody should be under the illusion that the people of this dignified and selfless country will renounce the glory, the rights, or the spiritual wealth they have gained with the development of education, science and culture. We do not need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, as this is our commitment to peace and fraternity among all human beings who live on this planet.

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Reality and Dreams
Fidel Castro Ruz, Granma – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Aug 2015

13 Aug 2015 – Celebrating his 89th birthday and the reopening of an American embassy in La Habana today, the leader of the Cuban Revolution insists that, ‘We will never stop struggling for peace and the wellbeing of all human beings, for every inhabitant on the planet regardless of skin color or national origin.’

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A Repugnant New Form of Fascism: The Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza
Fidel Castro Ruz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2014

11 Aug 2014 – I think that a new, repugnant form of fascism is emerging with notable strength, at this time in human history when more than seven billion inhabitants are struggling for their survival.

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It Is Time to Know A Little More about Realities
Fidel Castro Ruz - CounterPunch, 28 Jul 2014

The Importance of BRICS – The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other. We are political animals, as affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity’s thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises.

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Mandela Is Dead – So, Why Hide the Truth about Apartheid?
Fidel Castro Ruz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2013

Why do they try to hide the fact that the Apartheid regime –that brought so much suffering onto Africa and arouse so much indignation in most nations throughout the world– was the fruit of European colonial powers and was turned into a nuclear power by the United States and Israel, something Cuba, who supported Portuguese colonies in Africa fighting for their independence openly condemned?

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The Burial Of Our Species – The Roads Leading to Disaster
Fidel Castro Ruz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Apr 2012

Almost 200 States, supposedly independent, constitute the political organization which in theory has the job of governing the destiny of the world. Approximately 25,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of allied or enemy forces ready to defend the changing order, by interest or necessity, virtually reduce to zero the rights of billions of people. I shall not commit the naïveté of assigning the blame to Russia or China for the development of that kind of weaponry, after the monstrous massacre at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ordered by Truman after Roosvelt’s death.

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NATO’s Inevitable War: The Flood of Lies regarding Libya
Fidel Castro Ruz – Global Research, 7 Mar 2011

n contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the first spot on the Human Development Index for Africa and it has the highest life expectancy on the continent. Education and health receive special attention from the State. The cultural level of its population is without a doubt the highest. The colossal campaign of lies, unleashed by the mass media, resulted in great confusion in world public opinion. Some time will go by before we can reconstruct what has really happened in Libya, and we can separate the true facts from the false ones that have been spread.

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NATO’s Plan Is to Occupy Libya
Fidel Castro Ruz, CubaDebate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Feb 2011

An honest person will always be against any injustice committed against any nation of the world, and the worst injustice, at this moment, would be to remain silent in the face of the crime that NATO is preparing to commit against the Libyan people. The chief of that military organization is being urged to do so. This must be condemned!

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(Castellano) El Plan de la OTAN es Ocupar Libia
Fidel Castro Ruz – CubaDebate, 28 Feb 2011

El petróleo se convirtió en la principal riqueza en manos de las grandes transnacionales yankis; a través de esa fuente de energía dispusieron de un instrumento que acrecentó considerablemente su poder político en el mundo. Fue su principal arma cuando decidieron liquidar fácilmente a la Revolución Cubana tan pronto se promulgaron las primeras leyes justas y soberanas en nuestra Patria: privarla de petróleo.

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NATO, the World’s Gendarme, a Military Mafia
Fidel Castro Ruz – Granma International, 6 Dec 2010

On Friday, November 19, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal, the 28 members of that bellicose institution engendered by the United States, decided to create what they cynically describe as “the new NATO.”

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The Other Tragedy
Fidel Castro - Periodico, 26 Jul 2010

In the meeting I had with the economists of CIEM (World Economy Research Center) on Tuesday, July 13, I talked to them about an excellent documentary film by the French director Yann Arthus-Bertrand which includes statements by the most farsighted and well informed international personalities about another terrible danger threatening the human species that is cropping up right before our eyes: the destruction of the environment.

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The Insanities of Our Time
Fidel Castro Ruz – Climate and Capitalism, 3 May 2010

“The greatest contradiction of our time is the ability of our species to destroy itself, and its inability to govern itself.”

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THE WORLD HALF A CENTURY LATER
Fidel Castro, 12 Jan 2010

(January 3, 2010) — On the 51st anniversary of the victory of the Revolution two days ago, the memories of that January 1st, 1959 came flooding back to me. None of us ever thought that half a century later, a time that has flown past very fast, we would be remembering it as if it […]

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THE ANNEXATION OF COLOMBIA TO THE UNITED STATES
Fidel Castro Ruz - ZNet, 13 Nov 2009

Anyone with some information can immediately see that the sweetened ‘Complementation Agreement for Defense and Security Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the Governments of Colombia and the United States’ signed on October 30, and made public in the evening of November 2, amounts to the annexation of Colombia to the United States. The agreement puts […]

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THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE G-20 WASHINGTON SUMMIT
Fidel Castro Ruz, 18 Nov 2008

The Birth of the Mount Bush seemed happy to have Lula sitting to his right during dinner on Friday. On the other hand, Hu Jintao, whom he respects for the enormous market in his country, the capacity to produce consumer goods at low cost and the volume of his reserves in US dollars and bonds […]

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A PARASITICAL AND RAPACIOUS EMPIRE
Fidel Castro Ruz, 8 Nov 2008

Nov 3, 2008 TOMORROW will be a very important day. World opinion will be following what happens with the elections in the United States. It is the most powerful nation on the planet. With less than five percent of the world’s population, it annually sucks up enormous quantities of oil and gas, minerals, raw materials, […]

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THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE
Fidel Castro, 16 Oct 2008

Trade, within a society and among countries, is the exchange of goods and services produced by human beings. The owners of the means of production appropriate the profits. As a class, they are the leaders of the capitalist state and they boast of fostering development and social well-being through the market. This they worship as […]

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