We Have Lost Our Best Friend

[Catherina]

We Have Lost Our Best Friend
By Webmaster on March 11, 2013

The best friend the Cuban people have had throughout their history died on the afternoon of March 5. A call via satellite communicated the bitter news. The significance of the phrase used was unmistakable.

Although we were aware of the critical state of his health, the news hit us hard. I recalled the times he joked with me, saying that when both of us had concluded our revolutionary task, he would invite me to walk by the Arauca River in Venezuelan territory, which made him remember the rest that he never had.

The honor befell us to have shared with the Bolivarian leader the same ideas of social justice and support for the exploited. The poor are the poor in any part of the world.

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At that time, 66 years had passed since the Liberator Simón Bolívar wrote, ”…the United States would seem to be destined by fate to plague the Americas with miseries in the name of freedom.”

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Not even he himself suspected how great he was.

¡Until victory forever (Hasta la victoria siempre), unforgettable friend!

http://monthlyreview.org/castro/2013/03/11/we-have-lost-our-best-friend/

[JackRiddler]

1. What a quote from Bolivar

"…the United States would seem to be destined by fate to plague the Americas with miseries in the name of freedom."

Continuing today.

Also with a number of supporters on this board for continuing to plague the Americas with miseries in the name of freedom.

[Catherina]

2. I know

I've been trying to find the full quote online but it seems to be only available in print form, in records concerning a speech Bolivar gave in Caracas in 1819.

It's quite a quote, eternal too as you said.

[Starry Messenger]

3. k&r

[Judi Lynn]

4. It was clearly detailed in a memorandum in 1897, Christmas Eve

by the U.S. Undersecretary of War, J.C. Breckenridge. From his memorandum:

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The island of Cuba, a larger territory, has a greater population density than Puerto Rico, although it is unevenly distributed. This population is made up of whites, blacks, Asians and people who are a mixture of these races. The inhabitants are generally indolent and apathetic. As for their learning, they range from the most refined to the most vulgar and abject. Its people are indifferent to religion, and the majority are therefore immoral and simultaneously they have strong passions and are very sensual. Since they only possess a vague notion of what is right and wrong, the people tend to seek pleasure not through work, but through violence. As a logical consequence of this lack of morality, there is a great disregard for life.

It is obvious that the immediate annexation of these disturbing elements into our own federation in such large numbers would be sheer madness, so before we do that we must clean up the country, even if this means using the methods Divine Providence used on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

We must destroy everything within our cannons’ range of fire. We must impose a harsh blockade so that hunger and its constant companion, disease, undermine the peaceful population and decimate the Cuban army. The allied army must be constantly engaged in reconnaissance and vanguard actions so that the Cuban army is irreparably caught between two fronts and is forced to undertake dangerous and desperate measures.
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http://historyofcuba.com/history/bmemo.htm

This U.S. official showed the U.S. openly had everything to do with afflicting "the Americas with miseries in the name of freedom.”

Thank you for this statement from the former Cuban President.