August 8, 2010
Fidel Castro message to the Youth - ENG & SPA
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Fidel Castro, Message to the YouthFor 57 years, two generations of Cubans, that which preceded us and ours, which led both from the First of January 1959 until today, have fought against the most powerful empire ever known to mankind.
I do not harbor any fears of sounding exaggerated, I say it with modesty, and even grief. It hurts to see how hundreds of millions of young people in the world couldn’t even learn to read and write, or are semi-literate, or lack work and ignore everything related to the inalienable rights of human beings.
A colossal crime is being committed on billions of teenagers and youths of both sexes, whose beautiful minds are manipulated by the mass media and that many of them, mostly men, are turned into soldiers to die in unjust and genocidal wars that take place anywhere on the planet Earth.
The economic system that has prevailed is incompatible with the interests of humanity. It must end, and will end.
The new generations of young Cubans will get their message through, which was born of the experience of their own homeland; they will fulfill the sacred duty imposed on them by their own time.They will do so with humility and truth in hand, without stupid belief in racial or national superiority of any kind.
I’ve often wondered: Why do our children and our teenagers have to die?
Why do our young people have to die?
Why do those minds, where so many virtues could be planted and grown, have to go?
Why do their parents have to die in fratricidal wars?
Imagine that the Global Research website deserves no credit, that the theory of Gregory Ryskin, a biochemical engineer at Northwestern University about the bubble of methane that the writer Terrence Aym associated with the oil spill of British Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico, deserves no attention at all and they invite us to sleep peacefully.
Global Research published the only possible explanation of the sinking of Cheonan, a sophisticated anti-submarine ship capable of detecting a boat of this type at 185 miles away. Obviously, it could not be sunk by an old Russian submarine, built over 50 years ago.
We prefer to cling to the hope that the arguments used in the Reflection to be published on Tuesday, August 3, conform to reality.
Otherwise, the danger of another war breaking out, which would immediately become nuclear, would be the only alternative, and therefore, this message will become more important than ever.
There is not a chance in a thousand, in ten thousand, or in any desired amount, that the United States or Israel renounce the sanctions established by United Nations Security Council, with strict time limits, or that Iran accepts that its ships be inspected.
A blind man could see that with clarity. We will not give up, or allow the Empire to deceive the world.
Mensaje a los Jóvenes
Durante 57 años, dos generaciones de cubanos, la que nos precedió y la nuestra, que dirigió ambas desde el Primero de Enero de 1959 hasta hoy, hemos luchado contra el más poderoso imperio que ha conocido la humanidad.
No albergo temor alguno de parecer exagerado, lo digo con modestia, e incluso pena. Duele ver como cientos de millones de jóvenes en el mundo no pudieron siquiera aprender a leer y escribir, o son semianalfabetos, o carecen de trabajo e ignoran todo lo que se refiere a los derechos inalienables del ser humano.
Un colosal crimen se comete con miles de millones de adolescentes y jóvenes de ambos sexos, cuyas maravillosas inteligencias son manipuladas por los medios masivos de información, e incluso muchos de ellos, fundamentalmente varones, son convertidos en soldados para morir en guerras injustas y genocidas que se llevan a cabo en cualquier parte del planeta Tierra.
El sistema económico que ha prevalecido es incompatible con los intereses de la humanidad. Debe cesar y cesará.
Las nuevas generaciones de jóvenes cubanos harán llegar su mensaje, que nació de la experiencia vivida por su Patria, cumplirán un deber sagrado que le impuso la época que les correspondió vivir. Lo harán con humildad y con la verdad en la mano, sin la estúpida creencia en superioridades raciales o nacionales de índole alguna.
Me he preguntado muchas veces: ¿Por qué tienen que morir nuestros niños y nuestros adolescentes?
¿Por qué tienen que morir nuestros jóvenes?
¿Por qué tienen que desaparecer las inteligencias donde tantas virtudes podrían sembrarse y cultivarse?
¿Por qué tienen que morir sus padres en guerras fratricidas?
Imaginen que el sitio Web Global Research no merece crédito alguno; que la teoría de Gregory Ryskin, ingeniero bioquímico de la Universidad Northwestern, sobre la burbuja de metano que el articulista Terrence Aym asoció al derrame petrolero de la British Petroleum en el Golfo de México, no merece atención alguna y nos invitan a dormir tranquilos.
En el Global Research se publicó la única explicación posible del hundimiento del Cheonan, un sofisticado buque antisubmarino capaz de detectar una nave de este tipo a 185 kilómetros de distancia. Obviamente, no podía ser hundido por un viejo submarino de fabricación rusa, construido hace más de 50 años.
Nosotros preferimos aferrarnos a la esperanza de que los razonamientos empleados en la Reflexión que se publicará el martes 3 de agosto, se ajusten a la realidad.
De lo contrario, el otro peligro de que una guerra estalle, que de inmediato se volverá nuclear, sería la única alternativa, y por lo tanto, este mensaje se volverá más importante que nunca.
Ni siquiera existe una posibilidad en mil, en diez mil, en cualquier cifra que se desee, de que Estados Unidos o Israel renuncien a las sanciones ya establecidas por el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, con límites rigurosos de tiempo, ni de que Irán acepte que sus barcos sean inspeccionados.
Un ciego lo vería con claridad meridiana.
No nos rendiremos, ni le permitiremos al imperio engañar al mundo.
Watch Fidel's speech on Youtube.
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