Fidel Castro: storia di un rivoluzionario

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Compagni, apriamo questo thread in onore del compagno Fidel Castro.

Foto, documenti, articoli, storie inediti, eventi che hanno caratterizzato la vita di questo uomo, compagno, rivoluzionario che ha inciso come un macigno nella storia del XX secolo.

A voi.

[Masherov]

Guardate che non è mica morto!
E il compagno Fidel Castro ha detto che ora vuole dedicarsi alla lotta politica, intende scrivere qualcosa.
Quest'uomo prima di uscire da questo mondo ed entrare definitivamente nella leggenda ci riserverà qualche sorpresa.

[durito]

Guardate che non è mica morto!
E il compagno Fidel Castro ha detto che ora vuole dedicarsi alla lotta politica, intende scrivere qualcosa.
Quest'uomo prima di uscire da questo mondo ed entrare definitivamente nella leggenda ci riserverà qualche sorpresa.

diciamo che le immagini diffuse oggi non sono confortanti..sigh

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Guardate che non è mica morto!
E il compagno Fidel Castro ha detto che ora vuole dedicarsi alla lotta politica, intende scrivere qualcosa.
Quest'uomo prima di uscire da questo mondo ed entrare definitivamente nella leggenda ci riserverà qualche sorpresa.

Ma magari. Noi intanto gli facciamo un regalo per la sua nuova avventura di scrittore e teorico.

Guarda che secondo me gli fa pure piacere.


Bando alla ciance, ecco qua per partire

October 16, 1953: History Will Absolve Me
January 3, 1959: The Revolution Begins Now
January 21, 1959: When the People Rule
May 17, 1959: On the promulgation of the Agrarian Law
July 9, 1960: Facing U.S. Aggressions
September 26, 1960: To the U.N. General Assembly: Cuba's Revolutionary Policy
September 29, 1960: Abstract of: Establishing Revolutionary Vigilance in Cuba
February 2, 1961: L'Unita Interview with Fidel Castro: The Nature of Cuban Socialism
April 23, 1961: Denouncing U.S. Bay of Pigs Invasion
May 1, 1961: May Day Celebration: Cuba is a Socialist Nation
November 11, 1962: On the U.N. Demands of Cuba
January 2, 1963: Fourth Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
January 16, 1963: At the Closing of the Congress of Women of the Americans
January 15, 1966: At the Closing Session of the Tricontinental Conference
August 10, 1967: Speech to the OLAS Conference
May 1, 1980: Our Criminals are Leaving to their Allies in the US
June 3, 1992: Blaming Stalin for everything would be historical simplism
July 26, 2002: 49th Anniversary of the Attack on the Moncada Barracks
May 1, 2003: Cuba's achievments and America's Wars

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No Date 1960 1970 1980 1990 1959 1961 1971 1981 1991 1962 1972 1982 1992 1963 1973 1983 1993 1964 1974 1984 1994 1965 1975 1985 1995 1966 1976 1986 1996 1967 1977 1987 1968 1978 1988 1969 1979 1989
http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro.html

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Questo è il profilo che delinea Al Jazeera

Profile: Fidel Castro
Castro is the only leader many Cubans have
ever known [AFP] For almost 50 years, Fidel Castro has defied US attempts to remove him from power, holding on as Latin America's only communist leader.
A charismatic icon of socialism, known for his fiery speeches, Castro became the scourge of the United States.
In recent years, he enjoyed a revival as the inspiration of left-wing Latin American leaders such as Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, and Evo Morales, the Bolivian leader.
His struggles with Washington lead to a crippling political and economic blockade on the Caribbean island as well as an attempted invasion by Cuban exiles.
US-backed plots to remove him from power included one using exploding cigars and another that would have seen him poisoned with a diving suit contaminated with toxins.

According to one Cuban minister, more than 600 attempts were made on his life, but in the end nearly 50 years in power have meant that he has outlasted nine US presidents.
Social justice

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born into a relatively wealthy Jesuit family in 1926 and graduated from Havana University as a lawyer.
It was there that he had become passionate about the lack of social justice in Cuba and, in 1953, he took up arms against the government of President Fulgencio Batista, leading an attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba in which 80 men were killed.

"There is not communism or Marxism in our idea. Our political philosophic is representative democracy and social justice in a well planned economy."

Fidel CastroCastro, and his brother Raul, were captured and jailed for 15 years, but released during an amnesty after two. He left Cuba and ended up in Mexico where he raised and trained fighters for the 26 July Movement which launched an invasion of Cuba in 1956.
The Batista government was overthrown and Castro was installed as prime minister. Although Cuba's new rulers promised to return land to the people and defend the poor, Castro initially insisted that his philosophy was predominantly Cuban.
"There is not communism or Marxism in our idea," he said shortly after taking power.
"Our political philosophic is representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy."
Soviet ally
But shortly after he took the reins, a perceived snub by Dwight Eisenhower, the US president, pushed him into the arms of the Soviet Union.
A range of pacts were signed between the Soviet Union and Cuba, securing large amounts of economic and military aid for the island.
The US then tried to topple Castro, launching an invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. Cuban soldiers fought back the exiles that had been recruited by the US, killing many of them and capturing about 1,000.
Soon after, Castro declared Cuba to be a socialist nation for the first time.
Thousands of wealthy and middle class Cubans fled the country while the millions that remained became part of the left-wing experiment to create what Castro, and fellow revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, called "the new man".

The Bay of Pigs invasion also lead to a potentially even more dangerous confrontation in 1962.

Soviet nuclear missiles were placed on Cuba, ostensibly to protect it from further attacks by the US. Reconnaissance flights spotted the launch site on October 16 and during the next 12 days the world came the closest it ever has to nuclear war.

On October 28, Nikita Khrushchev, then Soviet leader, relented and announced that the missile site would be dismantled in return for a US guarantee that it would not invade Cuba.
Social successes

Castro has experienced a revival
as an icon of socialism [AFP]Some would argue that the experiment worked. The free health care system is the envy of much of the world, the country's infant mortality rate also compares favourably with Western nations.

Cuba also invested heavily in education and 98 per cent of the population are literate.

These successes have been held up as an example of how developing countries can succeed without relying on the US.
But much of this was paid for with Soviet money, the vast communist nation bought most of the country's sugar crop and brought desperately needed goods into Cuba despite the American embargo.
In fact, the end of the Soviet Union threatened to bring down his one-party state destroying the economy and bringing food shortages. Thousands of Cubans fled the country - taking to the sea in an attempt to reach Florida.
Opponents vilified Castro as a totalitarian ruler who carried out human rights abuses to crush political dissent.

In 2005, Amnesty International said the Cuban government was holding more than 70 people in poor conditions simply for disagreeing with the government.
In February, seven of those imprisoned were set free after human rights talks between Cuba and Spain.

The Cuban government insisted there are no political prisoners, only mercenaries financed by the US, criminals and "terrorists".
Undisclosed illness
Castro ceded power temporarily to his younger brother Raul in July 2006, following emergency intestinal surgery. He is still recovering from an undisclosed illness.
He has not been seen in public since, but has appeared on television and writes in state newspapers.
In video

Al Jazeera on what Cuba could be like under Raul

In January 2007 Castro said in a letter published in several state-owned Cuban newspapers that he was "not physically able" to perform his public duties but would instead continue to write.

Although he did not indicate stepping down, Castro suggested a month earlier that he would not cling to power, nor stand in the way of a younger generation of Cuban leaders.

January's parliamentary elections, in which Cubans voted in uncontested polls, suggested a transition to a post-Castro government.

Fidel Castro's communist project has survived for so long that he is the only leader that most Cubans have ever known.
Only sketchy details are known about Castro's private life. He has married three times and has seven children.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...963634621A.htm

[Leader Maximo (POL)]

come non inserire "La Storia mi assolverà"..
ecco un estratto del testo di difesa pronunciato da Fidel Castro

http://www.resistenze.org/sito/te/po/cu/pocu6i12.htm

per chi è interessato alla lettura integrale in lingua originale è reperibile qui http://www.bohemia.cubaweb.cu/moncad..._absolvera.zip

[EL ROJO]

Che cos'è la rivoluzione

...da imparare a memoria...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntLyc...eature=related