Articles of Fidel Castro Ruz

In the current stage of the world, when some 200 countries have been recognized as independent states with the right to participate in the United Nations ?ridiculous legal fiction?, the only chance to forge a ray of hope is by leading the masses, in a rational and calm way, to the understanding that all the inhabitants of the planet are facing a grave risk.

At 5:12 pm Cuban time, condemnations of the coup multiply. The Latin American leaders with the most prestige such as Chavez and Evo make their energetic denunciations heard. The OAS in meeting has no alternatives. The members are indignant and even Chinchilla protests; even the new president of Colombia supports Correa.

Three days ago, there was news printed that the Attorney General of Colombia, Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado had removed the prestigious Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba from her post and disqualified her from carrying out political office for 18 years, because of her alleged promoting and collaborating with the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).

This time they could not resort to a coup d’êtat in Venezuela as they did with Allende in Chile and in other counties in Our America. The armed forces of this fraternal country both promote and are a part of the Revolution. They are educated in the spirit and example of the Liberator, and it was their ranks that nurtured the current leaders who began this process

On August 6, on the 65th anniversary of that monstrous crime, Canadian academic Michel Chossudovsky reported that Harry S. Truman himself wrote in his diary 11 days before the release of the bomb: “We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It could be the fire destruction that was foretold in the Euphrates valley, after Noah’s Ark …. This weapon will be used against Japan …

These elections are of enormous significance and the empire knows it: it wants to weaken the revolution, limiting its ability to fight, to deprive it of the two-thirds majority of the National Assembly to facilitate its counterrevolutionary plans, increasing its vile media campaign and continuing to encircle Venezuela with military bases, surrounding it more and more with the lethal weapons of international drug trafficking and violence.

La tarea que realizan los compañeros en Haití es un producto de la conciencia. Por eso me atrevo a hablar de la conciencia, porque he visto que la conciencia hizo posible la Revolución, hizo posible la resistencia, independientemente de las críticas que nos hagan o de los errores que podamos cometer, porque ninguna obra humana es perfecta. No tememos lo más mínimo a hablar de errores, porque lo que no tiene perdón es lo que se hace conscientemente en perjuicio de los demás.

Now as to your slogan, which, in my view has very special value ?”Learn from past wars to build a future of peace”?, and will always have meaning, at this moment it is more relevant than ever. I would dare say, without fear of making a mistake, that there was never such a dangerous moment in the history of humanity.

The theory postulates that the only way to prevent the use of nuclear weapons is by eliminating them. Living in a privileged place on the planet, which allows them to enjoy the highest standards of living and the world’s riches despite the their incredible waste of non-renewable resources, the American people should be the ones most interested in the information provided by the scientists. But how much time does the mass media devote to this task?

Suddenly, while I wrote this Reflection, I remembered that France is the third nuclear power in the planet, and that Sarkozy also had a briefcase with the keys required to launch one of the more than 300 bombs he had. Is there any moral or ethical rational in launching an attack against Iran, a country condemned for its alleged intention of manufacturing this kind of weapon? Where are the good sense and the logic of that policy?