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“Keep calm and aim well. You are going to kill a man!” with these words, Ernesto Guevara received his assassin, Sergeant Jaime Teran according to the criminal’s own testimony. It was in the little school of La Higuera, Vallegrande, Bolivia, at noon on 9 October 1967, that the soldier Jaime Teran, drunk and unable to look Che in the eye, fired a series of bullets at him that extended his agony until another criminal in military clothing finished him off.

It was the night of 3 October 1965, in Havana, in what was then called the Chaplin Theatre (now known as the Carlos Marx Theatre): the very first Central Committee of the Communist Party was established and it established its official media, the newspaper, the Granma, the culmination of a defining stage in consolidating the Revolution.

In UN headquarters in New York, there was really not much the Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold, could say in response to Fidel Castro, Cuba’s Prime Minister, as he was setting out to camp in the gardens of the UN building. This was Fidel’s response to a hotel in New York City refusing to let him and his country’s delegation to the 15th Session of the General Assembly, continue to stay there.

It was on 28 July 1954, in Sabaneta de Barinas, Venezuela that one of the most important revolutionary leaders in Latin America’s history was born: Hugo Chávez Frías.
His mother, Elena Frías, brought him into the world, yet only remained with him until he was delivered. Story has it that, as a child growing up, he enjoyed listening to the stories related by his grandmother about the heroes that liberated his country and those who confronted the injustices inflicted by dictatorial governments (...)

In 1959, the first year of the Cuban Revolution, the Agrarian Reform was announced. This was pursuant to a strategy adopted by the new leaders navigating the Cuban ship, notably, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, to dismantle the structures that the neo-colonial model had put in place. The United States responded by a basket of measures: the economic, trade and financial embargo together with terrorist operations, armed attacks and uprisings of conmen on the Island.

1 June 1964, 53 years ago: Fidel Castro, the leader of the Revolution, declared that it was likely that the Yankees would attempt a bacteriological war against our people; he also alerted global public opinion of these facts, facts which the US government hypocritically denied while US special services escalated action that, in the years to come, would cost many Cubans their lives and would also subtract millions from the Island’s economy.

Many banners of struggle: these are the legacies that Hugo Chávez Frías as President of Venezuela left to the Latin American and Caribbean people at the time of his physical departure. These banners include dignity, unity and integration through solidarity of the region’s people. Threats and challenges that he knew how to assess, in his own way, during his life.

I have read several articles on the personality of the leader of the Cuban Revolution but one of those that most moved me is The Fidel that I know, by Gabriel García Márquez, conceived through the eyes of a sincere friend. It has a depth and beauty so characteristic of the style of the Colombian Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, who has now passed away.

José Martí was the Uruguay representative at the International Monetary Conference that took place under the auspices of the US government from 7 January to 8 April 1891 in Washington. The overriding objective of this conference was to set up a Union of Latin American Nations under US control and to guarantee the superiority of the US economy and trade, and thus, US’s political supremacy.

His words, actions and dreams penetrate to the depths of any human heart that loves peace as he does.

On 7 February 1959, the Cuban Official Gazette in one of the few leaflets published in the 38 days following the triumph of the Revolution, gave notice of the promulgation of the Basic Law of the Republic of Cuba. The Magna Carta referred to included amendments said to be fundamental for future structural and substantive social changes, indispensable in light of the new realities that the country faced.

On 4 September 1970, the doctor and parliamentarian, Salvador Allende Gossens, a presidential candidate for the political coalition, Unidad Popular, of socialist popularity and supported by progressive sectors and the country’s left triumphed in the elections. He became the new constitutional president of Chile.
A month later – on 4 November – he was sworn into office - this natural leader of the dispossessed, the peasants, the workers and students; a sympathizer and supporter of (...)

While the Western media resort to every trick in the book to get people to believe in the narrative that an alleged popular uprising in Syria has been quelled in blood, mum’s the word with regard to the brutal suppression of the democratic movement in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Morocco. In this piece, Cuban journalist Dalia Gonzalez Delgado discusses the reasons behind the complacency shown by the "friends" of democracy and freedom towards the Kingdom of Bahrain.

In a Reflection published on August 25, 2010 under the title of “The Opinion of an Expert”, I mentioned a really unusual activity of the United States and its allies which, in my opinion, underlines the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran. I was referring to a long article by the well-known journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, published in the US journal The Atlantic in September of that year, entitled “The Point of No Return”.
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