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<p><time class="dateline" datetime="2015-08-13 09:08:08">august
13, 2015 09:08:08</time></p>
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<p>Writing is a way to be useful if you believe that our
long-suffering humanity must be better, and more fully
educated, given the incredible ignorance in which we are
all enveloped, with the exception of researchers who in
the sciences seek satisfactory answers. This is a word
which implies in a few letters its immense content.</p>
<p>All of us in our youth heard talk at some point about
Einstein, in particular after the explosion of the
atomic bombs which pulverized Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
putting an end to the cruel war between the United
States and Japan.</p>
<p>When those bombs were dropped, after the war unleashed
by the attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor, the
Japanese Empire had already been defeated. The United
States, whose territory and industries remained removed
from the war, became the country with the greatest
wealth and the best weaponry on Earth, in a world torn
apart, full of death, the wounded and hungry.</p>
<p>The Soviet Union and China together lost more than 50
million lives, along with enormous material damage.
Almost all of the gold in the world landed in the vaults
of the United States. Today it is estimated that the
entirety of this country’s gold reserves reached 8,133.5
tons of this metal. Despite that, tearing up the Bretton
Woods accords they signed, the United States
unilaterally declared that it would not fulfill its duty
to back the Troy ounce with the value in gold of its
paper money.</p>
<p>The measure ordered by Nixon violated the commitments
made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. According
to a large number of experts on the subject, the
foundation of a crisis was created, which among other
disasters threatens to powerfully batter the economy of
this model of a country. Meanwhile, Cuba is owed
compensation equivalent to damages, which have reached
many millions of dollars, as our country has denounced
throughout our interventions in the United Nations, with
irrefutable arguments and facts.</p>
<p>As has been expressed with clarity by Cuba’s Party and
government, to advance good will and peace among all the
countries of this hemisphere and the many peoples who
are part of the human family, and thus contribute to the
survival of our species in the modest place the universe
has conceded us, we will never stop struggling for peace
and the well-being of all human beings, for every
inhabitant on the planet regardless of skin color or
national origin, and for the full right of all to hold a
religious belief or not.</p>
<p>The equal right of all citizens to health, education,
work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing,
that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our
struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our
dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of
our world, is what I wish for all. To those who share
all or part of these same ideas, or superior ones along
the same lines, I thank you, dear compatriots.</p>
<p>Fidel Castro Ruz</p>
<p>August 13, 2015</p>
<p>1:23 a.m.</p>
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