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Cuba’s Audacity Against The Empire
posted (December 2, 2016)
Tonight, Fidel Castro's ashes are making their way across Cuba to their final resting place in Santiago. It is a 560 miles slow procession, retracing the journey Castor made in 1959 to liberate Cuba. It culminates on Saturday with a mass gathering in Santiago, followed by the internment of his ashes the following day.

Belize is represented by the Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber and the Minster of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington.

Tonight, we have one more reflection on Castro's place in the long view of history. Though Castro is demonized in the US media - the view in the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa is far different. Nelson Mandela called him "a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving peoples," and Prime Minister Dean Barrow called him "a giant for the ages." Biographer Godfrey Smith who called him the Greatest World Leader of All time put in context what Castro achieved:

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"It's really preposterous that just a stone in the ocean should be able to repel and resist an empire, and confound many times that empire."

Godfrey Smith, SC, Former Foreign Minister
"I think in the unjoin distant objective view of history, it will have to be viewed as another reason why Fidel should rank among the greatest of all times, because I mean I am repeating your words now; a tiny little rock off the coast of this great empire, able to survive personally. Assassination attempts, invasion through the Bay of Pigs, economic blockade and still survived. Collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and therefore the cutting of aid from the Soviet Union and are still able to survive as a people with pride. Still able to promote tourism, for instance, to European and others who wish to go there and Fidel is revered in Cuba."

Next week, we'll have video of the internment of Castro's ashes.





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