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Fidel Castro Sends Message to Cuban Parliament
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Fidel Castro Sends Message to Cuban Parliament
Havana, Dec 28 (acn) Cuban Parliament, which is holding the 10th
Ordinary Session of its 6th Legislature today at Havana's Convention
Palace, has received a message from President Fidel Castro.
In the presence of Cuba's First Vice President Raul Castro Ruz,
Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon said that he spoke with Fidel
Castro before the session opened and that the Revolution leader had
asked him to read his message to the parliamentarians.
In his message Fidel acknowledges the work of Cuban parliamentarians in
the face of accumulated and increasing needs inherited by Cuban society
from the US neo-colonial rule on January 1st, 1959.
"Our pride is legitimate when we are about to mark 50 years after the
triumph of the Revolution, because we have resisted for nearly half a
century, the most powerful empire ever in history" said Fidel in his
message.
The Cuban Revolution leader reminds the parliamentarians that they
could see no sign of any nepotism or usurpation of the parliament's
functions in his proclamation issued on July 31, 2006. "In that
difficult and promising year for the Revolution, the unity of the
people, the Party and the State was a crucial requisite to keep
advancing and facing the threats of a military intervention declared by
the United States."
In his message, Fidel says that what the international media has
underscored most about Cuba over the past few days was a phrase of his,
contained in a letter addressed last December 17 to the director of the
TV program "The Round Table", in which he said that he was not a person
to cling to power. He said that he was now adding that he indeed was
for some time, due to the excesses of youth and lack of awareness, in
times when, without any tutor he was overcoming his political ignorance
to become a utopian socialist. "It was a stage in which I thought I
knew what should be done and I wished to do it," said Fidel and
explained that life changed him as he continued to study the ideas of
Jose Marti and the classic Socialists more deeply. He said that the
more he struggled the more he identified himself with those ideas, and
that long before the revolutionary victory he already thought that his
duty was to fight for those ideas or get killed in combat.
The Cuban President also warned of the dangers posed on humankind and
recalled a recent book by former World Bank Vice President Joseph
Stiglitz, who was also major advisor to former US President Bill
Clinton, which contributes up-to-date information about the threats
pending on the human species. Stiglitz notes that the United States is
the country which releases the largest amounts of green-house gasses in
the world, with 6 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually, Fidel
explains in his message and points out that few people know this
information about the need to protect the ozone layer that protects
life on the planet.
Fidel also refers to world issues like the situation in Pakistan which
he calls an example of threats pending on humankind, since it is an
internal conflict in country with nuclear weapons; a consequence of the
political adventures and wars unleashed by the United States to get
hold of the world's natural resources.
The situation in Pakistan has had an immediate impact on oil prices and
the stock market, said Fidel and recalled that no country or region may
avoid the consequences.
"We have to be prepared for everything," he said and noted that he
learned something new every single day of his life.
The Cuban Revolution leader also said in his message that the five
Cuban antiterrorist fighters held in US jails are an example to follow
by the new generations and he was sure that many young Cubans would do
the same if necessary.
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