It all started there, in Birán, in the province of Holguin, Cuba, where Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, better known as Fidel Castro, was born on August 13, 1926. (Photos of Granma newspaper and original photos by Oriol Marrero Martinez, counselor at the Cuban embassy in Greece) In these fields played the boy Fidel, in that school he studied his first letters, and there began a life that earned a place in the history of Cuba and the world.
The intelligent and restless young, persevering athlete, determined lawyer, became the young rebel, in the guerrilla, in the strategist, in the visionary deeply follower of the thought of the Cuban national hero José Marti, who chose not the side on which he lives best, but the side where the duty is and carried in himself the decorum of many men. He led the Cuban Revolution for the humble, with the humble and for the humble, in front of the most powerful enemy and fought for the dignity of man and the full enjoyment of rights and freedoms, against all kinds of discrimination.
Throughout the years of the Revolution he promoted and led the struggle of the Cuban people for the consolidation of the revolutionary process, their progress towards Socialism, the unity of revolutionary forces and the whole people, the economic and social transformations of the country, the development of education, health, sport, culture and science, as well as the confrontation of external aggressions and the conduct of an active foreign policy of principles.
His vision, as Marti, of Patria is Humanity, leading him to be a champion of the causes of the world's poor with which he made his luck and his titan's effort. His deep internationalism felt on his cheek the blow given to any man's cheek, and he claimed the right to life, to food, to peace, said farewell to arms and asked to save the planet, shone as intellectual, as a statesman, as a strategist, but above all as a human being. His deep modesty, evaded all worship, his eagerness to know led him to ask and learn from everything and of all, and he earned the love of his people and many men and women around the world.
Wherever Cuba is said, it is associates to the name of Fidel Castro, no matter the creed and ideology, Fidel entered history, who not only absolved him, but made him one of the most precious of its children cradled for eternity.
When he died in Havana, Cuba, on November 25, 2016, he continued to live forever among us, in his example and his ideas that guide the Cuban revolution and all the men and women of goodwill who aspire to a better world, which he demonstrated is possible.
He also left us his concept of revolution, a permanent guide in the work of every day.
"Revolution is a sense of historical moment; is to change everything that needs to be changed; is full equality and freedom; is to be treated and treat others as human beings; it is to emancipate ourselves and with our own efforts; is to challenge powerful dominant forces within and outside the social and national sphere; is to defend values in which it is believed at the price of any sacrifice; it is modesty, selflessness, altruism, solidarity and heroism; is to fight with audacity, intelligence and realism; is never to lie or violate ethical principles; it is a deep conviction that there is no force in the world capable of crushing the strength of truth and ideas. Revolution is unity, it is independence, it is to fight for our dreams of justice for Cuba and for the world, which is the basis of our patriotism, our socialism and our internationalism." Fidel Castro Ruz, May 1st, 2000
Let us celebrate every day the life of the Commander-in-Chief, eternal example of the Homeland and tireless guidance in the struggle for a better world.
Embacuba Grecia.
