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90 reasons and more to continue to venerate him

  • Published in Opinion

Fidel Castro Ruz.Admiring his face crumpled by the passage of the years shudders. The past and present are subdivided and share affections towards the man, the friend, the leader and hero by merits, of this extraordinary history, of a universal character.

He defends life to the full, he learned that from childhood, many virtues accompany him, that of having dignified the child, the black man, the woman, of never lying and saying the whole truth without omitting a punctuation mark. In every square, city, mountain, plain, mountain, he was able to demonstrate his lineage as a knight of honor.

Not hallucinating like the ingenious nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, he faced gigantic mills with feet well placed on the earth. He gave countless speeches all with the seal of exceptional dimensions.

His example inspires the whole of America, the same America protagonist of legends written with pain, sweat, tears, with blood. The unforgettable Chilean Pablo Neruda once said: "If one day the biography of this poet is written, I want it to read that once he saw, he spoke and he shook hands with the genuine liberator of Cuba."

Yes, the human who inspires a friendly hand, the rebel who, together with young visionary and dreamy revolutionaries, conquered the definitive freedom of the people, the same one who condemned nepotism, unbridled hunger, vices, injustices and inequalities, clearing paths and always loyal to his policy of sincerity is based on feelings and values based on equity, respect, citizenship and full sovereignty.

His name is Fidel Alejandro, his surnames: Castro Ruz, his thinking is only one, unique and indestructible:

"I was not born poor, I was born rich: I was not a peasant, but the son of a landowner. I did not live in an earthenware hut or walked barefoot. But I saw poverty close up without suffering it. That is why I am not an advocate of landowners, but of the people, of the peasants. "