08/13/2026
Today on Fidel Castro Centinnel we commemorate the spirit of revolution that has, and continues, to inspire the world fighting to make it a more just place for us all. This Black August we recommit to the struggle and coupled with Fidels centennial we recommit ourselves to internationalism and socialism. What follows is a beautiful poem by Eduardo Galeano that says it all. Felicidades, Fidel, may we all be as strong as you as we follow in your footsteps. Guide us to victory through revolutionary spirit, commitment and discipline. Hasta La Victoria Siempre!
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His enemies call him a king without a crown who confused unity with unanimity.
And they were right.
His enemies say that if Napoleon had published a paper like “Granma”, nobody in France would have found out about his defeat at Waterloo.
And they were right.
His enemies say he ruled by speaking a lot and listening very little, because he was more used to echoes than voices.
And they were right.
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But what his enemies don’t say is that he wasn’t posing for posterity when he met the invasion’s bullets chest first, that he faced every hurricane, time and again, as its equal, that he survived six hundred and thirty-seven assassination attempts, that his contagious energy was the deciding factor in turning a colony into a country, and that it wasn’t a Mandinka spell or a miracle from God that allowed this country to outlive ten United States presidents who had tucked a napkin under their chins to eat it with a knife and fork.
And his enemies don’t say that Cuba is one of the rare countries who don’t compete in the World Cup of Doormats.
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And they don’t say that this revolution, which grew up under sanctions, became what it could be and not what it wanted to be. And they don’t say that the wall between wishes and reality became bigger and wider mainly because of the imperial blockade that choked the development of a Cuban-style democracy, forcing society to militarize and bureaucratize, so that for every solution there was a problem, making excuses to justify and perpetuate it.
And they don’t say that in spite of all the in spites, in spite of outside
