With the conviction that "Fidel is in us", the Cuban Embassy in the United States celebrated today the 97th anniversary of the birthday of the eternal leader of the Cuban Revolution.
Gathered at the headquarters of the Caribbean diplomatic mission in this capital, officials and their relatives recalled the fruitful life of Fidel Castro, whose thought and work are present in every battle that the country fights, especially in the foreign service.
During the ceremony, young Gabriela Castillo, on behalf of her companions, reiterated the commitment of loyalty to Fidel, which is to say to the homeland, and fragments of Ode to the Revolution, a documentary dedicated to the people of Cuba, were screened.
Born on August 13, 1926 in Biran, today's Holguin province (east), Fidel was tried to be physically eliminated hundreds of times.
The services of the State Security of the island identified plans in different stages of development, reaching to be executed more than a hundred.
From poisoned powders and shakes, explosive tobaccos, deadly diving suits to possible bazookas, the Cuban leader escaped unscathed between 1958 and 2000 to 634 plots to kill him.
"So much so that on December 2, 1959, a memorandum from the then CIA chief for Latin America, Colonel Joseph Caldwell King, warned agency director Allen Dulles that the best way to put an end to the Cuban Revolution was to assassinate Fidel Castro," retired Major General Fabian Escalante, a profound scholar of the subject, told Prensa Latina at the time.
Fidel, one of the most outstanding political figures of the 20th and early 21st centuries, was convinced that all the glory of the world fits in a kernel of corn. He departed to immortality on November 25, 2016, at the age of 90.
In the monolith where his ashes rest in the Santa Ifigenia cemetery, in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, only the five letters of his name stand out.