http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/22oct-fidel.html
Havana. October 22, 2012
Fidel Castro is dying
Fidel Castro /Photos: Alex Castro
A message to the first graduating class from the Victoria de Girón
Medical Sciences Institute was enough to prompt imperialist propaganda to go
into overdrive and news agencies to voraciously launch themselves after the
lie. Not only that but, in their cables, they attributed the most unheard of
nonsense to the patient.
The ABC newspaper in Spain reported that a Venezuelan doctor from an
unknown location revealed that Castro had suffered a massive embolism in the
right cerebral artery; "I can state that we are not going to see him again in
public." The alleged doctor who, if he is, would first abandon his own
compatriots, described Castro’s health as "very close to a neural-vegetative
state."
While many persons in the world are deceived by information agencies
which publish this nonsense - almost all in the hands of the privileged and
rich - people believe less and less in them. Nobody likes to be deceived; even
the most incorrigible liar expects to be told the truth. In April of 1961,
everyone believed the information published in the news agencies that the
mercenary invaders of Girón or Bay of Pigs, whatever one wants to call it, were
approaching Havana, when in fact some of them were fruitlessly trying by boat
to reach the yanki warships escorting them.
The peoples are learning and resistance is growing, faced with the crisis
of capitalism which is recurring with greater frequency; no lies, repression or
new weapons will be able to prevent the collapse of a production system which
is increasingly unequal and unjust.
A few days ago, very close to the 50th anniversary of the October Crisis,
news agencies pointed to three guilty parties: Kennedy, having recently become
the leader of the empire, Khrushchev and Castro. Cuba did not have anything to
do with nuclear weapons, nor with the unnecessary slaughter of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki perpetrated by the president of the United States, Harry S. Truman,
thus establishing the tyranny of nuclear weapons. Cuba was defending its right
to independence and social justice.
When we accepted Soviet aid in weapons, oil, foodstuffs and other
resources, it was to defend ourselves from yanki plans to invade our homeland,
subjected to a dirty and bloody war which that capitalist country imposed on us
from the very first months, which left thousands of Cubans dead and maimed.
When Khrushchev proposed the installation here of medium range missiles
similar to those the United States had in Turkey – far closer to the USSR than
Cuba to the United States – as a solidarity necessity, Cuba did not hesitate to
agree to such a risk. Our conduct was ethically irreproachable. We will never
apologize to anyone for what we did. The fact is that half a century has gone
by, and here we still are with our heads held high.
I like to write and I am writing; I like to study and I am studying.
There are many tasks in the area of knowledge. For example, never before have
the sciences advanced at such an astounding speed.
I stopped publishing "Reflections" because it is definitely not my role
to take up pages in our press, dedicated to other tasks which the country
requires.
Birds of ill omen! I don’t even remember what a headache is. As evidence
of what liars they are, I present them with the photos which accompany this
article.
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