Fidel Castro Ruz

Former president of Cuba. Commander-in-chief of the Revolution.

365 articles

français Español English Português italiano русский Deutsch فارسى

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 18 March 2008

The cable agencies were quick to get the news out, news which, though not exactly laughable, are indeed ironic. Everyone said their share. There was competition, that is to say, they competed with one another. Videos of Dick Cheney, the war’s intellectual author, and his disciple McCain, also (...)

Thirst for blood

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 17 March 2008

1
The empire is not resigning itself to being the only loser at the Rio Group meeting held in Santo Domingo on March 7th. It wants to set up the bloody mess once more. It is not difficult to demonstrate it.
On Tuesday March 11th, El Nuevo Herald, a paper that is extremely hostile to (...)

Ever onwards and upwards

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 11 March 2008

Secondary Education students met: their XI Congress was the occasion. Listening to them, I felt wholesome pride and justifiable envy. What a privilege at that fertile age! If today university education has become massive, so too a more important activity is massive: the battle of ideas (...)

Chavez’ visit

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 10 March 2008

Raúl had invited him. He replied he didn’t want to come see me so I wouldn’t catch the flu he had. That was nothing but a pretext to avoid the torture of my habitual questions. “What am I taking vitamin C for?” I told him in a message. Should we expect all the heads of State who attended the (...)

The one and only loser

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 10 March 2008

The knock-out took place in the capital of the Dominican Republic. We followed every second of the match on Telesur. Nearly all of the Latin American presidents from the Rio Group were there. Ecuadorian President Correa had announced it the day before. I underscored the importance of this (...)

The International Criminal Tribunal

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 10 March 2008

For the past months and ending yesterday on March 5th, La Hojilla, a Venezolana de Televisión programme, took on the task of selecting facts and sentences that exactly reveal the imperialist scheme of doing to Chavez what was done to Milosevič after the genocidal Kosovo Conflict: to have him (...)

Rafael Correa

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 4 March 2008

I remember when he visited us, months before the electoral campaign when he was thinking of running as a candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador. He had been the Minister of the Economy in the government of Alfredo Palacio, a surgeon with professional prestige who had also visited us as Vice (...)

Christians without Bibles

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 3 March 2008

Our doctors and all the other Cuban health professionals and technicians are an exceptional powerhouse. No other country has anything like it; just like our island’s internationalist soldiers, they were trained in combat. Their missions overseas abide by strict ethical standards. Their (...)

I Hope I Never Have A Reason To Be Ashamed

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 3 March 2008

These words will be published tomorrow, on February 29th. A great many tasks lie immediately ahead of us. The 10th International Gathering of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems, a conference I have always attended and in which I have always expressed different points of view, (...)

Who wants to be in garbage dump?

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 24 February 2008

Today, by mere chance, I remembered that the OAS still exists, when I read a cable posted on the Internet which contained an article by Georgina Saldierna, published in La Jornada, titled “Insulza rules out the possibility of re-admitting Cuba into the OAS”. No one even remembered the OAS. (...)

What I Wrote on Tuesday 19

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 22 February 2008

That Tuesday there was no fresh international news. The modest message I wrote to the Cuban people on Monday, February 18, was widely and easily disseminated. As from 11 o’clock in the morning I started to receive concrete news. The previous night I had slept like never before. I had a (...)

Message from the Commander in Chief

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 19 February 2008

Dear compatriots:
Last Friday, February 15, I promised you that in my next reflection I would deal with an issue of interest to many compatriots. Thus, this now is rather a message.

John McCain: The Republican Candidate

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 11 February 2008

1
These reflections are self-explanatory.
In that already famous Super Tuesday, a day of the week when a number of States of the Union were selecting the candidate of their choice for the presidency of the United States from among a group of contenders, one of the likely candidates to (...)

Volodia’s journey

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 4 February 2008

Some days ago I mentioned his name as an example of a Communist militant, whose struggle gave his life some meaning. For eight years he even held the highest posts within his Party. He shared Allende’s faith in Chile and the beautiful vision that, rather sooner than later, the great avenues (...)

The antithesis of ethics

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 30 January 2008

On the day when hundreds of intellectuals coming from every continent are meeting in Havana to take part in an International Conference for World Equilibrium on the date of José Marti’s birth, on that same day, by some strange quirk, the President of the United States spoke. In his last State (...)

Fidel Castro Ruz

Most popular