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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
Camagüey, 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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