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Distinguished
guests;
Dear
fellow Cubans:
Cuba
and the Nazi-Fascism
Our
heroic people have struggled for 44 years from this small Caribbean island
just a few miles away from the most formidable imperial power ever known
by mankind. In so doing, they have written an unprecedented chapter in
history. Never has the world witnessed such an unequal fight.
Some
may have believed that the rise of the empire to the status of the sole
superpower, with a military and technological might with no balancing pole
anywhere in the world, would frighten or dishearten the Cuban people. Yet,
today they have no choice but to watch in amazement the enhanced courage
of this valiant people. On a day like today, this glorious international
workers’ day, which commemorates the death of the five martyrs of
Chicago, I declare, on behalf of the one million Cubans gathered here,
that we will face up to any threats, we will not yield to any pressures,
and that we are prepared to defend our homeland and our Revolution with
ideas and with weapons to our last drop of blood.
What
is Cuba’s sin? What honest person has any reason to attack her?
With
their own blood and the weapons seized from the enemy, the Cuban people
overthrew a cruel tyranny with 80,000 men under arms, imposed by the U.S.
government.
Cuba
was the first territory free from imperialist domination in Latin America
and the Caribbean, and the only country in the hemisphere, throughout
post-colonial history, where the torturers, murderers and war criminals
that took the lives of tens of thousands of people were exemplarily
punished.
All
of the country’s land was recovered and turned over to the peasants and
agricultural workers. The natural resources, industries and basic services
were placed in the hands of their only true owner: the Cuban nation.
In
less than 72 hours, fighting ceaselessly, day and night, Cuba crushed the
Bay of Pigs mercenary invasion organized by a U.S. administration, thereby
preventing a direct military intervention by this country and a war of
incalculable consequences. The Revolution already had the Rebel Army, over
400,000 weapons and hundreds of thousands of militia members.
In
1962, Cuba confronted with honor, and without a single concession, the
risk of being attacked with dozens of nuclear weapons.
It
defeated the dirty war that spread throughout the entire country, at a
cost in human lives even greater than that of the war of liberation.
It
stoically endured thousands of acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks
organized by the U.S. government.
It
thwarted hundreds of assassination plots against the leaders of the
Revolution.
While
under a rigorous blockade and economic warfare that have lasted for almost
half a century, Cuba was able to eradicate in just one year the illiteracy
that has still not been overcome in the course of more than four decades
by the rest of the countries of Latin America, or the United States
itself.
It
has brought free education to 100% of the country’s children.
It
has the highest school retention rate –over 99% between kindergarten and
ninth grade– of all of the nations in the hemisphere.
Its
elementary school students rank first worldwide in the knowledge of their
mother language and mathematics.
The
country also ranks first worldwide with the highest number of teachers per
capita and the lowest number of students per classroom.
All
children with physical or mental challenges are enrolled in special
schools.
Computer
education and the use of audiovisual methods now extend to all of the
country’s children, adolescents and youth, in both the cities and the
countryside.
For
the first time in the world, all young people between the ages of 17 and
30, who were previously neither in school nor employed, have been given
the opportunity to resume their studies while receiving an allowance.
All
citizens have the possibility of undertaking studies that will take them
from kindergarten to a doctoral degree without spending a penny.
Today,
the country has 30 university graduates, intellectuals and professional
artists for every one there was before the Revolution.
The
average Cuban citizen today has at the very least a ninth-grade level of
education.
Not
even functional illiteracy exists in Cuba.
There
are schools for the training of artists and art instructors throughout all
of the country’s provinces, where over 20,000 young people are currently
studying and developing their talent and vocation. Tens of thousands more
are doing the same at vocational schools, and many of these then go on to
undertake professional studies.
University
campuses are progressively spreading to all of the country’s
municipalities. Never in any other part of the world has such a colossal
educational and cultural revolution taken place as this that will turn
Cuba, by far, into the country with the highest degree of knowledge and
culture in the world, faithful to Martí’s profound conviction that
"no freedom is possible without culture."
Infant
mortality has been reduced from 60 per 1000 live births to a rate that
fluctuates between 6 and 6.5, which is the lowest in the hemisphere, from
the United States to Patagonia.
Life
expectancy has increased by 15 years.
Infectious
and contagious diseases like polio, malaria, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria,
measles, rubella, mumps, whooping cough and dengue have been eradicated;
others like tetanus, meningococcal meningitis, hepatitis B, leprosy,
hemophilus meningitis and tuberculosis are fully controlled.
Today,
in our country, people die of the same causes as in the most highly
developed countries: cardiovascular diseases, cancer, accidents, and
others, but with a much lower incidence.
A
profound revolution is underway to bring medical services closer to the
population, in order to facilitate access to health care centers, save
lives and alleviate suffering.
In-depth
research is being carried out to break the chain, mitigate or reduce to a
minimum the problems that result from genetic, prenatal or
childbirth-related causes.
Cuba
is today the country with the highest number of doctors per capita in the
world, with almost twice as many as those that follow closer.
Our
scientific centers are working relentlessly to find preventive or
therapeutic solutions for the most serious diseases.
Cubans
will have the best healthcare system in the world, and will continue to
receive all services absolutely free of charge.
Social
security covers 100% of the country’s citizens.
In
Cuba, 85% of the people own their homes and they pay no property taxes on
them whatsoever. The remaining 15% pay a wholly symbolic rent, which is
only 10% of their salary.
Illegal
drug use involves a negligible percentage of the population, and is being
resolutely combated.
Lottery
and other forms of gambling have been banned since the first years of the
Revolution to ensure that no one pins their hopes of progress on luck.
There
is no commercial advertising on Cuban television and radio or in our
printed publications. Instead, these feature public service announcements
concerning health, education, culture, physical education, sports,
recreation, environmental protection, and the fight against drugs,
accidents and other social problems. Our media educate, they do not poison
or alienate. They do not worship or exalt the values of decadent consumer
societies.
There
is no cult of personality around any living revolutionary, in the form of
statues, official photographs, or the names of streets or institutions.
The leaders of this country are human beings, not gods.
In
our country there are no paramilitary forces or death squads, nor has
violence ever been used against the people; there are no extrajudicial
executions or torture. The people have always massively supported the
activities of the Revolution. This rally today is proof of that.
Light
years separate our society from what has prevailed until today in the rest
of the world. We cultivate brotherhood and solidarity among individuals
and peoples both in the country and abroad.
The
new generations and the entire people are being educated about the need to
protect the environment. The media are used to build environmental
awareness.
Our
country steadfastly defends its cultural identity, assimilating the best
of other cultures while resolutely combating everything that distorts,
alienates and degrades.
The
development of wholesome, non-professional sports has raised our people to
the highest ranks worldwide in medals and honors.
Scientific
research, at the service of our people and all humanity, has increased
several-hundredfold. As a result of these efforts, important medications
are saving lives in Cuba and other countries.
Cuba
has never undertaken research or development of a single biological
weapon, because this would be in total contradiction with the principles
and philosophy underlying the education of our scientific personnel, past
and present.
In
no other people has the spirit of international solidarity become so
deeply rooted.
Our
country supported the Algerian patriots in their struggle against French
colonialism, at the cost of damaging political and economic relations with
such an important European country as France.
We
sent weapons and troops to defend Algeria from Moroccan expansionism, when
the king of this country sought to take control of the iron mines of Gara
Djebilet, near the city of Tindouf, in southwest Algeria.
At
the request of the Arab nation of Syria, a full tank brigade stood guard
between 1973 and 1975 alongside the Golan Heights, when this territory was
unjustly seized from that country.
The
leader of the Republic of Congo when it first achieved independence,
Patrice Lumumba, who was harassed from abroad, received our political
support. When he was assassinated by the colonial powers in January of
1961, we lent assistance to his followers.
Four
years later, in 1965, Cuban blood was shed in the western region of Lake
Tanganyika, where Che Guevara and more than 100 Cuban instructors
supported the Congolese rebels who were fighting against white mercenaries
in the service of the man supported by the West, that is, Mobutu whose 40
billion dollars, the same that he stole, nobody knows what European banks
they are kept in, or in whose power.
The
blood of Cuban instructors was shed while training and supporting the
combatants of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape
Verde, who fought under the command of Amilcar Cabral for the liberation
of these former Portuguese colonies.
The
same was true during the ten years that Cuba supported Agostinho Neto’s
MPLA in the struggle for the independence of Angola. After independence
was achieved, and over the course of 15 years, hundreds of thousands of
Cuban volunteers participated in defending Angola from the attacks of
racist South African troops that in complicity with the United States, and
using dirty war tactics, planted millions of mines, wiped out entire
villages, and murdered more than half a million Angolan men, women and
children.
In
Cuito Cuanavale and on the Namibian border, to the southwest of Angola,
Angolan and Namibian forces together with 40,000 Cuban troops dealt the
final blow to the South African troops. This resulted in the immediate
liberation of Namibia and speeded up the end of apartheid by perhaps 20 to
25 years. At the time, the South Africans had seven nuclear warheads that
Israel had supplied to them or helped them to produce, with the full
knowledge and complicity of the U.S. government.
Throughout
the course of almost 15 years, Cuba had a place of honor in its solidarity
with the heroic people of Viet Nam, caught up in a barbaric and brutal war
with the United States. That war killed four million Vietnamese, in
addition to all those left wounded and mutilated, not to mention the fact
that the country was inundated with chemical compounds that continue to
cause incalculable damage. The pretext: Viet Nam, a poor and
underdeveloped country located 20,000 kilometers away, constituted a
threat to the national security of the United States.
Cuban
blood was shed together with that of citizens of numerous Latin American
countries, and together with the Cuban and Latin American blood of Che
Guevara, murdered on instructions from U.S. agents in Bolivia, when he was
wounded and being held prisoner after his weapon had been rendered useless
by a shot received in battle.
The
blood of Cuban construction workers, that were nearing completion of an
international airport vital for the economy of a tiny island fully
dependent on tourism, was shed fighting in defense of Grenada, invaded by
the United States under cynical pretexts.
Cuban
blood was shed in Nicaragua, when instructors from our Armed Forces were
training the brave Nicaraguan soldiers confronting the dirty war organized
and armed by the United States against the Sandinista revolution.
And
there are even more examples.
Over
2000 heroic Cuban internationalist combatants gave their lives fulfilling
the sacred duty of supporting the liberation struggles for the
independence of other sister nations. However, there is not one single
Cuban property in any of those countries. No other country in our era has
exhibited such sincere and selfless solidarity.
Cuba
has always preached by example. It has never given in. It has never sold
out the cause of another people. It has never made concessions. It has
never betrayed its principles. There must be some reason why, just 48
hours ago, it was reelected by acclamation in the United Nations Economic
and Social Council to another three years in the Commission on Human
Rights, of which it has now been a member for 15 straight years.
More
than half a million Cubans have carried out internationalist missions as
combatants, as teachers, as technicians or as doctors and health care
workers. Tens of thousands of the latter have provided their services and
saved millions of lives over the course of more than 40 years. There are
currently 3000 specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine and other
healthcare personnel working in the most isolated regions of 18 Third
World countries. Through preventive and therapeutic methods they save
hundreds of thousands of lives every year, and maintain or restore the
health of millions of people, without charging a penny for their services.
Without
the Cuban doctors offered to the United Nations in the event that the
necessary funds are obtained –without which entire nations and even
whole regions of sub-Saharan Africa face the risk of perishing– the
crucial programs urgently needed to fight AIDS would be impossible to
carry out.
The
developed capitalist world has created abundant financial capital, but it
has not in any way created the human capital that the Third World
desperately needs.
Cuba
has developed techniques to teach reading and writing by radio, with
accompanying texts now available in five languages –Haitian Creole,
Portuguese, French, English and Spanish– that are already being used in
numerous countries. It is nearing completion of a similar program in
Spanish, of exceptionally high quality, to teach literacy by television.
These are programs that were developed in Cuba and are genuinely Cuban. We
are not interested in patents and exclusive copyrights. We are willing to
offer them to all of the countries of the Third World, where most of the
world’s illiterates are concentrated, without charging a penny. In five
years, the 800 million illiterate people in the world could be reduced by
80%, at a minimal cost.
After
the demise of the USSR and the socialist bloc, nobody would have bet a
dime on the survival of the Cuban Revolution. The United States tightened
the blockade. The Torricelli and Helms-Burton Acts were adopted, the
latter extraterritorial in nature. We abruptly lost our main markets and
supplies sources. The population’s average calorie and protein
consumption was reduced by almost half. But our country withstood the
pressures and even advanced considerably in the social field.
Today,
it has largely recovered with regard to nutritional requirements and is
rapidly progressing in other fields. Even in these conditions, the work
undertaken and the consciousness built throughout the years succeeded in
working miracles. Why have we endured? Because the Revolution has always
had, as it still does and always will to an ever-greater degree, the
support of the people, an intelligent people, increasingly united,
educated and combative.
Cuba
was the first country to extend its solidarity to the people of the United
States on September 11, 2001. It was also the first to warn of the
neo-fascist nature of the policy that the extreme right in the United
States, which fraudulently came to power in November of 2000, was planning
to impose on the rest of the world. This policy did not emerge as a
response to the atrocious terrorist attack perpetrated against the people
of the United States by members of a fanatical organization that had
served other U.S. administrations in the past. It was coldly and carefully
conceived and developed, which explains the country’s military build-up
and enormous spending on weapons at a time when the Cold War was already
over, and long before September 11, 2001. The fateful events of that day
served as an ideal pretext for the implementation of such policy.
On
September 20 of that year, President Bush openly expressed this before a
Congress shaken by the tragic events of nine days earlier. Using bizarre
terminology, he spoke of "infinite justice" as the goal of a war
that would apparently be infinite as well.
"Americans
should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we
have ever seen."
"We
will use every necessary weapon of war."
"Every
nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with
us, or you are with the terrorists."
"I've
called the Armed Forces to alert, and there is a reason. The hour is
coming when America will act."
"This
is civilization's fight."
"…the
great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time --now
depends on us."
"The
course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain … and
we know that God is not neutral."
Did
a statesman or an unbridled fanatic speak these words?
Two
days later, on September 22, Cuba denounced this speech as the blueprint
for the idea of a global military dictatorship imposed through brute
force, without international laws or institutions of any kind.
"The
United Nations Organization, simply ignored in the present crisis, would
fail to have any authority or prerogative whatsoever. There would be only
one boss, only one judge, and only one law."
Several
months later, on the 200th anniversary of West Point Military
Academy, at the graduation exercise for 958 cadets on June 3, 2002,
President Bush further elaborated on this line of thinking in a fiery
harangue to the young soldiers graduating that day, in which he put
forward his fundamental fixed ideas:
"Our
security will require transforming the military you will lead -- a
military that must be ready to strike at a moment's notice in any dark
corner of the world. And our security will require all Americans to be
forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for preemptive action when
necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives."
"We
must uncover terror cells in 60 or more countries…"
"…we
will send you, our soldiers, where you're needed."
"We
will not leave the safety of America and the peace of the planet at the
mercy of a few mad terrorists and tyrants. We will lift this dark threat
from our country and from the world."
"Some
worry that it is somehow undiplomatic or impolite to speak the language of
right and wrong. I disagree. … We are in a conflict between good and
evil, and America will call evil by its name. By confronting evil and
lawless regimes, we do not create a problem, we reveal a problem. And we
will lead the world in opposing it."
In
the speech I delivered at a rally held in General Antonio Maceo Square in
Santiago de Cuba, on June 8, 2002, before half a million people of
Santiago, I said:
"As
you can see, he doesn’t mention once in his speech (at West Point) the
United Nations Organization. Nor is there a phrase about every people’s
right to safety and peace, or about the need for a world ruled by
principles and norms."
"Hardly
two thirds of a century has passed since humanity went through the bitter
experience of Nazism. Fear was Hitler’s inseparable ally against his
adversaries… Later, his fearful military force [led to] the outbreak of
a war that would inflame the whole world. The lack of vision and the
cowardice of the statesmen in the strongest European powers of the time
opened the way to a great tragedy.
"I
don’t think that a fascist regime can be established in the United
States. Serious mistakes have been made and injustices committed in the
framework of its political system --many of them still persist-- but the
American people still have a number of institutions and traditions, as
well as educational, cultural and ethical values that would hardly allow
that to happen. The risk exists in the international arena. The power and
prerogatives of that country’s president are so extensive, and the
economic, technological and military power network in that nation is so
pervasive that due to circumstances that fully escape the will of the
American people, the world is coming under the rule of Nazi concepts and
methods."
"The
miserable insects that live in 60 or more countries of the world chosen by
him and his closest assistants --and in the case of Cuba by his Miami
friends-- are completely irrelevant. They are the ‘dark corners of the
world’ that may become the targets of their unannounced and
‘preemptive’ attacks. Not only is Cuba one of those countries, but it
has also been included among those that sponsor terror."
I
mentioned the idea of a world tyranny for the first time exactly one year,
three months and 19 days before the attack on Iraq.
In
the days prior to the beginning of the war, President Bush repeated once
again that the United States would use, if necessary, any means within its
arsenal, in other words, nuclear weapons, chemical weapons and biological
weapons.
The
attack on and occupation of Afghanistan had already taken place.
Today
the so-called "dissidents", actually mercenaries on the payroll
of the Bush’s Hitler-like government, are betraying not only their
homeland, but all of humanity as well.
In
the face of the sinister plans against our country on the part of the
neo-fascist extreme right and its allies in the Miami terrorist mob that
ensured its victory through electoral fraud, I wonder how many of those
individuals with supposedly leftist and humanistic stances who have
attacked our people over the legal measures we were forced to adopt as a
legitimate defense against the aggressive plans of the superpower, located
just a few miles off our coasts and with a military base on our own
territory, have been able to read these words. We wonder how many have
recognized, denounced and condemned the policy announced in the speeches
by Mr. Bush that I have quoted, which reveal a sinister Nazi-fascist
international policy on the part of the leader of the country with the
most powerful military force ever imagined, whose weapons could destroy
the defenseless humanity ten times over.
The
entire world has been mobilized by the terrifying images of cities
destroyed and burned by brutal bombing, images of maimed children and the
shattered corpses of innocent people.
Leaving
aside the blatantly opportunistic, demagogic and petty political groups we
know all too well, I am now going to refer fundamentally to those who were
friends of Cuba and respected fighters in the struggle. We would not want
those who have, in our opinion, attacked Cuba unjustly, due to
disinformation or a lack of careful and profound analysis, to have to
suffer the infinite sorrow they will feel if one day our cities are
destroyed and our children and mothers, women and men, young and old, are
torn apart by the bombs of Nazi-fascism, and they realize that their
declarations were shamelessly manipulated by the aggressors to justify a
military attack on Cuba.
Solely
the numbers of children murdered and mutilated cannot be the measure of
the human damage but also the millions of children and mothers, women and
men, young and old, who remain traumatized for the rest of their lives.
We
fully respect the opinions of those who oppose capital punishment for
religious, philosophical and humanitarian reasons. We Cuban
revolutionaries also abhor capital punishment, for much more profound
reasons than those addressed by the social sciences with regard to crime,
currently under study in our country. The day will come when we can accede
to the wishes for the abolition of such penalty so nobly expressed here by
Reverend Lucius Walker in his brilliant speech. The special concern over
this issue is easily understood when you know that the majority of the
people executed in the United States are African American and Hispanic,
and not infrequently they are innocent, especially in Texas, the champion
of death sentences, where President Bush was formerly the governor, and
not a single life has ever been pardoned.
The
Cuban Revolution was placed in the dilemma of either protecting the lives
of millions of Cubans by using the legally established death penalty to
punish the three main hijackers of a passenger ferry or sitting back and
doing nothing. The U.S. government, which incites common criminals to
assault boats or airplanes with passengers on board, encourages these
people gravely endangering the lives of innocents and creating the ideal
conditions for an attack on Cuba. A wave of hijackings had been unleashed
and was already in full development; it had to be stopped.
We
cannot ever hesitate when it is a question of protecting the lives of the
sons and daughters of a people determined to fight until the end,
arresting the mercenaries who serve the aggressors and applying the most
severe sanctions against terrorists who hijack passenger boats or planes
or commit similarly serious acts, who will be punished by the courts in
accordance with the laws in force.
Not
even Jesus Christ, who drove the traders out of the temple with a whip,
would fail to opt for the defense of the people.
I
feel sincere and profound respect for His Holiness Pope John Paul II. I
understand and admire his noble struggle for life and peace. Nobody
opposed the war in Iraq as much and as tenaciously as he did. I am
absolutely certain that he would have never counseled the Shiites and
Sunni Muslims to let them be killed without defending themselves. He would
not counsel the Cubans to do such a thing, either. He knows perfectly well
that this is not a problem between Cubans. This is a problem between the
people of Cuba and the government of the United States.
The
policy of the U.S. government is so brazenly provocative that on April 25,
Mr. Kevin Whitaker, chief of the Cuban Bureau at the State Department,
informed the head of our Interests Section in Washington that the National
Security Council’s Department of Homeland Security considered the
continued hijackings from Cuba a serious threat to the national security
of the United States, and requested that the Cuban government adopt all of
the necessary measures to prevent such acts.
He
said this as if they were not the ones who provoke and encourage these
hijackings, and as if we were not the ones who adopt drastic measures to
prevent them, in order to protect the lives and safety of passengers, and
being fully aware for some time now of the criminal plans of the fascist
extreme right against Cuba. When news of this contact on the 25 was
leaked, it stirred up the Miami terrorist mob. They still do not
understand that their direct or indirect threats against Cuba do not
frighten anyone in this country.
The
hypocrisy of Western politicians and a large group of mediocre leaders is
so huge that it would not fit in the Atlantic Ocean. Any measure that Cuba
adopts for the purposes of its legitimate defense is reported among the
top stories in almost all of the media. On the other hand, when we pointed
out that during the term in office of a Spanish head of government, dozens
of ETA members were executed without trial, without anyone protesting or
denouncing it before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, or
that another Spanish head of government, at a difficult moment in the war
in Kosovo, advised the U.S. president to step up the war, increase the
bombing and attack civilian targets, thus causing the deaths of hundreds
of innocent people and tremendous suffering for millions of people, the
headlines merely stated, "Castro attacks Felipe and Aznar". Not
a word was said about the real content.
In
Miami and Washington they are now discussing where, how and when Cuba will
be attacked or the problem of the Revolution will be solved.
For
the moment, there is talk of economic measures that will further intensify
the brutal blockade, but they still do not know which to choose, who they
will resign themselves to alienating, and how effective these measures may
be. There are very few left for them to choose from. They have already
used up almost all of them.
A
shameless scoundrel with the poorly chosen first name Lincoln, and the
last name Díaz-Balart, an intimate friend and advisor of President Bush,
has made this enigmatic statement to a Miami TV station: "I can’t
go into details, but we’re trying to break this vicious cycle."
What
methods are they considering to deal with this vicious cycle? Physically
eliminating me with the sophisticated modern means they have developed, as
Mr. Bush promised them in Texas before the elections? Or attacking Cuba
the way they attacked Iraq?
If
it were the former, it does not worry me in the least. The ideas for which
I have fought all my life will not die, and they will live on for a long
time.
If
the solution were to attack Cuba like Iraq, I would suffer greatly because
of the cost in lives and the enormous destruction it would bring on Cuba.
But, it might turn out to be the last of this Administration’s fascist
attacks, because the struggle would last a very long time.
The
aggressors would not merely be facing an army, but rather thousands of
armies that would constantly reproduce themselves and make the enemy pay
such a high cost in casualties that it would far exceed the cost in lives
of its sons and daughters that the American people would be willing to pay
for the adventures and ideas of President Bush. Today, he enjoys majority
support, but it is dropping, and tomorrow it could be reduced to zero.
The
American people, the millions of highly cultivated individuals who reason
and think, their basic ethical principles, the tens of millions of
computers with which to communicate, hundreds of times more than at the
end of the Viet Nam war, will show that you cannot fool all of the people,
and perhaps not even part of the people, all of the time. One day they
will put a straightjacket on those who need it before they manage to
annihilate life on the planet.
On
behalf of the one million people gathered here this May Day, I want to
convey a message to the world and the American people:
We
do not want the blood of Cubans and Americans to be shed in a war. We do
not want a countless number of lives of people who could be friends to be
lost in an armed conflict. But never has a people had such sacred things
to defend, or such profound convictions to fight for, to such a degree
that they would rather be obliterated from the face of the Earth than
abandon the noble and generous work for which so many generations of
Cubans have paid the high cost of the lives of many of their finest sons
and daughters.
We
are sustained by the deepest conviction that ideas are worth more than
weapons, no matter how sophisticated and powerful those weapons may be.
Let
us say like Che Guevara when he bid us farewell:
Ever
onward to victory!
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