Mr. George W. Bush: the million Cubans who are gathered here today to march past

your Interests Section is just a small part of a valiant and heroic people who

would like to be here with us, if it were physically possible.



We have not gathered in a hostile gesture to the American people whose ethics,

rooted in the time when the first pilgrims emigrated to this hemisphere, are

well known to us. Neither do we wish to upset the officials, employees and

guards of this mission, who are given all the safety and guarantees that a

civilized and educated people such as ours can offer while they serve their

terms. This is an outraged protest and a denunciation of the brutal, ruthless

and cruel measures against our country that your country has just adopted.



We know beforehand what you believe or want to make others believe about those

who are marching here. In your opinion they are oppressed masses who yearn for

liberty and who have been forced onto the streets by the Cuban government.



You completely ignore that no force in the world could drag a dignified, proud

people, which has withstood 45 years of hostility, blockade and aggression from

the most powerful nation on earth, on to the streets like a flock of animals

each one with rope around their neck.



A statesman, or whoever claims to be one, should know that down through history

really humane ideas of justice have been shown to be much more powerful than

force; force leaves in its wake only dusty, contemptible ruins; humane ideas

leave a luminous trail that no one will ever be able to extinguish. Every era

has had its own ideas, both good and bad ones, and they have accumulated. But

the worst, most sinister and uncertain ideas belong in this era in which we live

in a barbarous, uncivilized, globalized world.



In the world that you seek to impose on us today there is not the slightest

notion of ethics, credibility, standards of justice, humanitarian feelings, nor

of the elementary principles of solidarity and generosity.



Everything that is written about human rights in your world, and in the world of

your allies who share in plundering the world, is an enormous lie.



Billions of human beings live in infrahuman conditions starving, without enough

food, medicine, clothes, shoes or shelter and without even a minimum amount of

knowledge or enough information to understand their tragedy and that of the

world in which they live.



Surely nobody has told you about the tens of millions of children, adolescents,

youths, mothers, middle or elderly people who die every year but that could have

been saved in this "idyllic Eden of dreams" which is Earth, nor have

they told you at what rate the natural conditions for life are being destroyed

and that the hydrocarbons which took the world 300 million years to create are

being squandered in a century and a half, with devastating effects.



You have only to ask your assistants for precise data on the tens of thousands

of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, bombers, smart long range missiles,

battleships and aircraft carriers, conventional and non-conventional weapons in

your arsenals which are enough to wipe out all life of the planet.



Neither you nor anyone else would ever be able to sleep again. Neither would

your allies, who are trying to emulate your military build-up. If your allies

low responsibility coefficient, political talent, inequality between their

respective states and their infinitesimal inclination to reflect in the time

they have left between protocols, meetings and advisors, are taken into account,

those who have the destiny of the world in their hands can harbor few hopes

when, half puzzled half indifferent, they gaze upon the real madhouse that world

politics has become.



The purpose of these words is not to offend nor insult you: but since you have

set out to intimidate, to terrorize this country and eventually to destroy its

socio-economic system and independence, and if necessary its very physical

existence, I consider it my elemental duty to remind you of a few home truths.



You have neither the morality nor the right, none whatsoever, to speak of

freedom, democracy and human rights when you hold enough power to destroy

humanity and are attempting to install a world tyranny, side-stepping and

destroying the United Nations Organization, violating the human rights of any

and every country, waging wars of conquest to take over world markets and

resources and installing decadent and anachronistic political and social systems

which are leading the human race into the abyss.



There are other reasons why you cannot mention the word democracy: among these

is the fact that everyone knows you became president of the United States

through fraud. You cannot speak of freedom because you cannot conceive of a

world other than one ruled by fear of the lethal weapons which your inexpert

hands might rain down on humanity.



You cannot speak of the environment because you are completely ignorant of the

fact that the human race is in danger of disappearing.



You label a tyranny the economic and political system that has guided the Cuban

people to higher levels of literacy, knowledge and culture than those in the

most developed countries in the world. The same that has reduced infant

mortality to a rate lower than that of the United States and whose population is

provided with all healthcare and education services and with other extremely

important social and human services free of charge.



Listening to you talk of human rights in Cuba has a hollow, absurd ring.



This, Mr. Bush, is one of the few countries in this hemisphere where not once in

45 years has there been a single case of torture, a single death squad, a single

extrajudicial execution or a single ruler who has become a millionaire through

having held power.



You lack the moral authority to speak of Cuba, a dignified country which has

withstood 45 years of a brutal blockade, economic war and terrorist attacks

which have cost thousands of lives and ten of billions of dollars in economic

losses.



You are attacking Cuba for petty, political reasons, trying to obtain electoral

support from a shrinking group of renegades and mercenaries who have no ethical

principles whatsoever. You lack the moral right to speak of terrorism because

you are surrounded by a bunch of murderers who have caused the death of

thousands of Cubans through terrorist methods.



You do not hide your contempt for human life, because you have not hesitated to

order the extrajudicial death of a secret, unknown number of people in various

parts of the world.



You have no right whatsoever, except for that of brute force, to intervene in

Cuba´s affairs and, whenever the fancy takes you, to proclaim the transition

from one system to another and to take measures to make this happen.



This people can be exterminated -it´s as well you know this- or wiped off the

face of the earth but it cannot be subjugated nor put once again into the

humiliating position of a United States neo-colony.



Cuba fights on the side of life in the world; you fight on the side of death.

Whereas you kill countless people with your indiscriminate, pre-emptive surprise

attacks, Cuba saves the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, mothers, old

and sick people all over the world.



The only thing you know about Cuba are the lies that spill forth from the

ravenous mouths of the corrupt and insatiable mob of former Batista supporters

and their descendents who are experts in electoral fraud and capable of electing

President of the United States someone who did not obtain enough votes to claim

victory.



Human beings are not aware of nor can they be aware of freedom in a regime of

inequality like the one you represent. No one is born equal in the United

States. In the black and Latin ghettos and on the reservations for the natives

who once inhabited that land but were exterminated, there is no other equality

but that of being poor and excluded.



Our people, educated in solidarity and internationalism, do not hate the

American people nor do they want to see young white, black, Native Americans,

mestizo or Latin soldiers from that country die, young people driven by

unemployment to enlist in the military to be sent to any corner of the world in

traitorous, pre-emptive attacks or in wars of conquest.



The unbelievable torture applied to prisoners in Iraq has rendered the world

speechless.



I do not seek to offend you with these words, as I have already said. My only

hope is that in your leisure time one of your assistants would bring these

truths to your notice, even though they may not be completely pleasing to you.



Since you have decided that the die is cast, I have the pleasure of saying

farewell like the Roman gladiators who were about to fight in the arena: Hail

Cesar, those who are about to die salute you!



My only regret is that I would not even see your face because in that case you

would be thousands of miles away while I shall be in the frontline to die

fighting in defense of my homeland.



In the name of the Cuban people,







Fidel Castro Ruz.



mh

To hear such bull plop again, as usual from the moron, Bush Admirer.

Bush Admirer.

'nuf said.

-'You might say that U.S. policy toward Cuba was itself hijacked by terrorists. It is a familiar story, dating back to the late fifties, when Vice President Richard Nixon played the role of Victor Frankenstein in creating a monster in south Florida.

"The Cuba Project was an overreaching program of clandestine warfare, offhanded military adventures, sabotage, and political and economic subversion," according to William Turner and Warren Hinckle, authors of "Deadly Secrets." Turner is an FBI veteran, and Hinckle founded the 1960's muckraking journal "Ramparts."-

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