Fidel Castro is dying
By 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.
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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.
Fidel Castro Ruz
October 21, 2012
10:12 a.m.
- Elías Jaua: Fidel is very well, very lucid
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