Dear Nicolás:
I share the unanimous opinion of those who have congratulated you for
your brilliant, valiant speech on the night of December 6, as soon as the
election’s outcome was announced
In world history, the highest level of political glory which a
revolutionary can reach, is that of the illustrious Venezuelan combatant,
Liberator of America, Simón Bolívar, whose name now belongs not only to this
sister country, but to all peoples of Latin America.
Another Venezuelan official of honorable legacy, Hugo Chávez, understood
and admired him and struggled for his ideas until the last moment of his life.
As a boy, attending elementary school in the country where the poor children of
Bolívar were obliged to work to help support their families, he developed the
spirit in which the Liberator of America was forged.
The millions of children and youth who today attend the largest and most
modern system of public schools in the world are Venezuelan. More can be said
about the country’s network of medical care centers and the attention paid to
the health of its people, brave but poor as a result of centuries of plunder by
Spanish colonialism, and later by huge transnationals, which for more than 100
years extracted from its entrails the best of the immense oil reserves nature
bestowed on this country.
History also bears witness that workers exist, and make possible the
enjoyment of nutritious food, medicine, education, security, housing and the
world’s solidarity. You could ask the oligarchy, if you like: Do you know all
of this?
Cuban revolutionaries - just a few miles from the United States, which
always dreamed of taking possession of Cuba to make it a hybrid casino-brothel,
as a way of life for the children of José Martí - will never renounce their
full independence or respect for their dignity.
I am sure that human life on Earth can only be preserved with peace
among all peoples of the Earth, and acknowledgement of the right to make the
planet’s natural resources common property, as well as the sciences and
technologies created by human beings to benefit all of its inhabitants. If
humanity continues along the path of exploitation and the plunder of its
resources by transnationals and imperialist banks, the representatives of
states meeting in Paris, will draw the relevant conclusions.
Security does not exist today for anyone. There are nine states which
possess nuclear weapons. One of them, the United States, dropped two bombs
which killed hundreds of thousands of people in just three days, and caused
physical and psychological harm to millions of defenseless people.
The People’s Republic of China and Russia know the world’s problems much
better than the United States, because they were obliged to endure the terrible
wars imposed on them by fascism’s blind egoism. I do not doubt that, given
their historical traditions and their own revolutionary experience, they will
make the greatest effort to avoid a war and contribute to the peaceful
development of Venezuela, Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Fraternally,
Fidel Castro Ruz
December 10, 2015
6:42 pm
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