In a panel discussion broadcast live on state television in the CBC's Channel TV 8 People's Business program, several Barbadian opinion leaders debated with the Cuban Ambassador various facets about the life of the Commander-in-Chief , Fidel Castro Ruz, and the legacy of his work for both the Cuban Revolution and for the region and the world. Barbados Ambassador to CARICOM, Robert Morris, prominent advocate and social activist Robert "Bobby" Clarke, prominent intellectual Dr. Tennyson Joseph of the University of the West Indies UWI-Cave Hill Campus, And the Cuban Ambassador, Dr. Francisco Fernández Peña.
The debate highlighted themes such as the universal stature of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, his contribution to the liberation of Africa, his internationalist vocation and South-South cooperation and Third World integration, his attachment to the principles of Independence, sovereignty, self-determination, anti-imperialism and respect for international law. While the representative of the Barbadian Chancellery emphasized the vocation of solidarity and the ethical principles that he always firmly defended even in the difficult moments that the world lived during the Cold War period, his friend Bobby Clarke referred to the consequent and decisive anti-imperialism Participation of the Cuban people under their leadership to contribute to the process of African liberation, independence of Angola, elimination of apartheid and freedom of Nelson Mandela; And the academic Dr. Joseph, also a columnist in the local press, highlighted the Fidel´s legacy for the Caribbean through a multifaceted cooperation and because Fidel was always the spokesman friend of the noble causes that keep fighting our region.
For his part, the Cuban Ambassador, who thanked the gestures of friendship and respect shown by the Barbadian people during the 9 days of national mourning decreed by the recent death of Fidel, in various interventions was complementing the edges of his life and work. He first demonstrated how the unfailing concept of anti-imperialism was put into practice, being at the forefront of all battles and aggressions, particularly state blockade and terrorism against its people. He then focused on the concrete actions in which the integrationist spirit of his thought manifested itself, culminating in the emerging mechanism of CELAC.
And finally, in the last block of the program dedicated to his universal legacy, the Cuban diplomat emphasized the role played by Fidel in the defense of national security and in his active foreign policy that gave resonant victories to the Revolution, putting examples such as Denunciations in international forums about imperialist military and terrorist aggressions, rectification of the discredited OAS for its spurious expulsion of revolutionary Cuba from the inter-American system, the defeat inflicted on the United States. And its allies in the late Commission on Human Rights, as well as the permanent struggle in the UN system for respecting International Law, the principles of its Charter, the right to world peace and general and complete disarmament in particular Nuclear disarmament, indivisible and universal human rights as recognized by the Universal Convention, and the right to prosperous and sustainable development, environmentally friendly, which are still the chimera of developing countries.