[News] Fidel on Che

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Reflections by the Commander in Chief

CHE

I make a halt in my daily struggle to bow my head 
in respect and gratitude to the exceptional 
combatant who fell in combat on October 8th, 
forty years ago; for the example he passed on to 
us as leader of his Rebel Army Column, crossing 
the swampy grounds of the former provinces of 
Oriente and Camagüey, while being chased by enemy 
troops.  He was the liberator of the city of 
Santa Clara and the mastermind of voluntary work; 
he accomplished honorable political missions 
abroad and served as messenger of militant 
internationalism in East Congo and Bolivia.  He 
built a new awareness in our America and the world.

I thank him for what he tried and failed to do in 
his home country, because he was like a flower 
prematurely severed from its stem.

He left to us his unmistakable literary style. He 
was elegant, swift and true to every detail of 
whatever happened to cross his mind.  He was a 
predestinate, but he didn’t know it.  He still fights with us and for us.

Yesterday, we commemorated the 31st anniversary 
of the killing of all passengers and the crew of 
a Cubana airliner blown in mid-air, and we are on 
the threshold of the tenth anniversary of the 
cruel and unjust imprisonment of the five Cuban 
anti-terrorist heroes.  We likewise bow our heads in respect to them all.

It was with great emotion that I watched and 
heard the commemoration ceremony on TV.

Fidel Castro Ruz
October 7, 2007
3:17 pm




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