The man of just causes
CUBA, November 23, 2017.- The cries of that black woman in the La Pista neighborhood of Jagüey Grande resounded in the wind; was left homeless before the onslaught of powerful hurricane Michelle, the fateful November 4, 2001, and the president of Cuba entered what was the door ...
Fidel Castro, the following Sunday, visited the Popular Council of the historic Central Australia. Amable Tobías Casanova, the then delegate from constituency 47, informed the Commander that the approximately one thousand inhabitants of 82 houses were left without roofs or furniture; but all alive.
The woman, whose name escaped the journalist's agenda, found it hard to believe that Fidel was standing in what was the living room of his house, hugging him and tears flowing down his face, while the revolutionary leader with a firm voice affirmed: "Be calm, you will be supported, everything will be resolved ... the damages will be repaired in record time ..."
A year later in his new home, more comfortable to resist other winds, an immense photo that left for history the embrace between Fidel and that humble woman was the center of the spacious room.
This happened again and again, during hurricanes, accidents, celebrations ... The Commandant arrived in the province of Matanzas on numerous occasions, he could be seen in broad daylight on a sunny Sunday projecting what would be the comfortable road that links the city head with Varadero, when stones were removed from what would be the appropriate Viaduct later.
In full sugar harvest, behind every detail of citrus production in the company that, 50 years ago, founded for the future, concerned about the generation of electric power, the extraction of oil, in the plan of schools in the countryside, the largest in Cuba, where the Marti precept of study-work became fully valid, so the Matanceros saw Fidel.
With his characteristic vision he inaugurated hotels in the Hicacos Peninsula, and there he also came when the weather affected the western territory of the country, before the incredulous eyes of thousands of foreign tourists, who did not understand how the President of a nation risked his life to exchange with them.
At the Marcelo Salado school in Cárdenas, before the empty desk of Elián, the child victim of the Cuban Adjustment Act, who was kidnapped by the Cuban-American extreme right of Miami, the Commander in Chief assured that it would be a battle of the that would not even be shredded by the prestige of the American government, because reason was on our side.
We saw them attend Elián's birthday, talk with the children, inaugurate the A Batalla de Ideas museum, "unique to Cuba and the world."
On each day the firm look of the one with the red cap and soaked in sweat reaffirms that the man of just causes accompanies us at all times.
- "Journalist - he told me - I was in Africa, I was an internationalist combatant, when you want you can go to my house, or where my mother lives, we have many stories to tell, these are times of not forgetting, people have to know, young people will have to continue, I am proud to be Cuban, I also call myself Fidel ... ". (Cubaminrex-ACN)