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Reflections by comrade Fidel
THE WASHINGTON MEETING
Fidel Castro Ruz November
14, 2008
According to recent statements, some supportive governments do not
cease to say they want to facilitate transition in Cuba. What kind of
transition?
Transition to capitalism, the only system they have absolute faith
in. They do not say a word about the merits of our people, which for
almost half a century of harsh economic sanctions and aggressions, has
defended a revolutionary cause that together with its morale and patriotism,
has given it the strength to put up a resistance.
They seem to forget that after laying down lives and making sacrifices
in defense of sovereignty and justice, Cuba cannot be expected to end
up on the side of capitalism.
They ingratiate themselves with the United States hoping that it will
help them face their own economic problems injecting huge amounts of
paper money to their shaky economies which maintain unequal and abusive
terms of trade with the emerging nations.
This is the only way they can ensure the multimillion profits of Wall
Street and the US banks. The non renewable natural resources of the
planet and its ecology are not even mentioned. There is no claim for
the end of the arms race and the banning of the potential and probable
use of weapons of mass destruction.
None of the participants in the conclave hurriedly convened by the
sitting President of the United States has said a word about the absence
of over 150 nations facing the same problems or even worse. These will
not have the right to speak on the international financial order as
the pro tempore President of the UN General Assembly Miguel D’Escoto
had proposed, even when they include most of the countries from Latin
America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
The G-20 meeting will open in Washington tomorrow. Bush is delighted.
He has stated that a new international financial order will result from
the meeting and that the institutions set up at Bretton Woods should
be more transparent, accountable and effective. It’s as much as
he would admit.
Referring to Cuba’s prosperity in the past, he said that it had
once been full of sugarcane fields. By the way, he failed to mention
that it was manually cut and that, for over half a century, the empire
has deprived us from our quota. Also that this action was taken when
the word socialism had yet to be spoken in our country, although we
had certainly proclaimed:
Homeland or Death!
Many seem to dream that after a simple change of leadership in the
empire, this would be more tolerant and less hostile. Apparently, contempt
for the incumbent ruler makes some entertain illusions about a probable
change in the system.
The innermost ideas of the citizen who will take over the issue are
yet unknown. It would be extremely naïve to believe that the good
will of a smart person could change what is the result of centuries
of selfishness and vested interests.
Let’s watch attentively what everyone says in that major financial
conclave.
There will be plenty of news. We shall all be a bit better informed.
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