Fidel Castro: Cuba Will Continue Fighting Terrorism

[Mika]

Cuba Will Continue Fighting Terrorism
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2005/06/26/wor02.html

Havana(Prensa Latina) President Fidel Castro of Cuba affirmed that his country is in a position to continue the struggle against terrorism while at the same time developing economically and socially.

At the close of a meeting with health and education officials in which a salary increase was announced for workers in those sectors, the president avowed that the Revolution will continue elevating the quality of life for the population without abandoning the battle against terrorism.

Calling to mind the Havana conference on combating terrorism that took place a few days ago and brought together hundreds of intellectuals, human rights defenders, social activists, as well as political and union leaders from 70 countries, Fidel Castro said the country will dedicate the time necessary for everything.

The statesman noted that the conference revealed the criminal essence of the US policy toward Latin America and its regional attachments with military dictatorships and governments that cave in to Washington. "We learned terrible things, we did not know the extent of the horror," he said, speaking of the testimonies at the event by Madres of the Plaza de Mayo, the victims of Operation Condor, and investigators of "transnational terror."

More (including comments on Luis Posada) at
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2005/06/26/wor02.html

[minnesotaDFLer]

1. LONG LIVE CASTRO!!!

[Say_What]

2. Mika, check this out...

I posted it on the Colombia thread, but it's a great pic. a very young Fidel sans beard on the left in Bogota during the riots of April 1948 after Gaitán's assasination just at the start of the 10 year civil war "La Violencia" http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/castro-1945-1953.htm

[Mika]

4. Cool

:thumbsup:

I love your sig quote by Hugo Chavez.

[flordehinojos]

5. i was in santiago de cuba in 1959 ...and shortly after his "triumphant

entrance" to that city, he visited a family who resided in a house not too far away from where i was. the entire neighborhood stood outside the house where he was visiting...when he came outside people got a chance to see a very charismatic fidel castro--nothing what he looks like today--more like what he looks in your picture posted here but with a beard...that was a long time ago...i think that the people in that entire well-to-do neighborhood are all living in this country now {and having fled what eventually became the castro dictatorship, it is incomprehensible to me how they are blinded to the ever growing bush dictatorship).

[VegasWolf]

3. Good , so he's going to keep fighting Bush. nt