[FSUG-Bangalore] Fidel Castro on Che

[Vikram Vincent]

Fidel Castro on Che

CHE

I make a halt in my daily struggle to bow my head in respect and gratitude
to the exceptional combatant who fell in combat on October 8th, forty years
ago; for the example he passed on to us as leader of his Rebel Army Column,
crossing the swampy grounds of the former provinces of Oriente and Camag?ey,
while being chased by enemy troops.  He was the liberator of the city of
Santa Clara and the mastermind of voluntary work; he accomplished honorable
political missions abroad and served as messenger of militant
internationalism in East Congo and Bolivia.  He built a new awareness in our
America and the world.

I thank him for what he tried and failed to do in his home country, because
he was like a flower prematurely severed from its stem.

He left to us his unmistakable literary style. He was elegant, swift and
true to every detail of whatever happened to cross his mind.  He was a
predestinate, but he didn't know it.  He still fights with us and for us.

Yesterday, we commemorated the 31st anniversary of the killing of all
passengers and the crew of a Cubana airliner blown in mid-air, and we are on
the threshold of the tenth anniversary of the cruel and unjust imprisonment
of the five Cuban anti-terrorist heroes.  We likewise bow our heads in
respect to them all.

It was with great emotion that I watched and heard the commemoration
ceremony on TV.

Fidel Castro Ruz
October 7, 2007
3:17 pm
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http://www.swatantra.org/
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