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All
physical, geographic and time barriers disappeared. It
seemed unreal. Never before had a dialogue of this nature
taken place between heads of State and government, most of
whom represented nations that had been pillaged by colonial
and imperialist powers for centuries. Nothing could have
been more instructive.
The Saturday of November 10th, 2007,
will go down in the history of our America as a day of
truth.
The ideological Waterloo took place when the King
of Spain abruptly asked Chávez: “Why don’t you keep quiet?”
All hearts in Latin America raced at that instant. The
people of Venezuela, who will be called upon to vote “yes”
or “no” next December 2nd, were shaken by the
emotion of living the glorious days of Bolivar again. The
betrayals and the low blows that our dear brother endures
each day cannot change the way the Bolivarian people feel.
When Chávez arrived from Chile at the Caracas
airport and I heard him directly mention his plans to mingle
with the crowds, as he has done so many times, I had the
extremely vivid impression that, given the current
circumstances and the highly significant ideological victory
he has attained, a paid assassin of the empire’s, an
oligarch corrupted by the reflexes that the empire’s
propaganda machine has inculcated into people, or a mentally
disturbed person could put an end to his life. It is
impossible to avoid the impression that the empire and the
oligarchy are doing everything in their power to lead Chávez
to a cul-de-sac, that they can easily place him in the line
of fire.
Venezuela must ensure its victory is transformed,
not into a terrible setback, but into a much greater
victory, to prevent imperialism from leading our species to
suicide. We must continue to struggle and to face risks, but
we must not play Russian roulette or flip a coin every
single day. No one escapes the logic of probability.
In such circumstances, the modern means of
communication through which the summit debates were aired
live are preferable.
Fidel
Castro Ruz
November 12, 2007
4:45
p.m.
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