A
comrade Fidel Castro’s Reflection
That brutal military alliance has
become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of
humankind.
NATO took on that global repressive
role as soon as the USSR, which had served the United States as an excuse for
its creation, ceased to exist. Its criminal purpose became obvious in
Serbia, a Slavic country, whose people had so heroically fought against Nazi
troops in WW II.
When in March of 1999 the countries
of this ill-fated organization, in its efforts to disintegrate Yugoslavia after
the death of Josip Broz Tito, sent their troops in support of the Kosovar
secessionists, they ran into strong resistance from that nation whose
experienced forces were still intact.
The Yankee administration, advised
by the Spanish right-wing government of José María Aznar, attacked the Serbian
TV stations, the bridges over the Danube River and Belgrade, that country’s
capital. The embassy of the People’s Republic of China was destroyed by
Yankee bombs, several of the officials died and there could not have been any
error as the authors alleged. Many Serbian patriots lost their lives.
President Slobodan Miloševiс, overwhelmed by the power of the
aggressors and the disappearance of the USSR, ceded to NATO demands and
admitted to the presence of that alliance’s troops in Kosovo under the UN
mandate; this finally led to his political downfall and subsequent trial by The
Hague courts which were less than impartial. He died a strange death in
prison. Had the Serbian leader resisted a few more days, NATO would have
entered into a serious crisis which was on the point of exploding. The
empire thus had much more time to impose its hegemony among the every more
subordinated members of that organization.
Between February 21st and April 27th
of this year, I published nine Reflections on the subject on the CubaDebate
website; in them I amply dealt with NATO’s role in Libya and what, in my
opinion, was going to happen.
Therefore I find myself obliged to
synthesize the essential ideas that I put forth, and the events that have been
happening as foreseen, just that now the central figure in that story, Muammar
Al-Gaddafi, was seriously wounded by the most modern NATO fighter-bombers which
intercepted and incapacitated his vehicle, he was captured while still alive
and murdered by men that organization had armed.
His body has been kidnapped and
exhibited as a trophy of war, conduct that violates the most basic principles
of the norms of Muslim and other religious beliefs in the world. It is being
announced that very soon Libya shall be declared a “democratic state and
defender of human rights.”
I find myself obliged to dedicate
several Reflections to these important and significant events.
A little over eight months ago, on February 21st of this year, I stated
with complete conviction: “The NATO plan is to occupy Libya”. With that
title I dealt with the subject for the first time in a Reflection whose content
seemed to be the product of a fantasy.
I include in these lines the elements for the opinion that led me to
that conclusion.
“Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee
transnationals; through this energy source they had an instrument that
considerably expanded their political power in the world.”
“Upon this energy source today’s civilization was developed.
Venezuela was the nation in this hemisphere that paid the highest price.
The United States became the lord and master of the huge oil fields that Mother
Nature had bestowed upon that sister country.”
“At the end of the last World War, it started to extract greater amounts
of oil from the oil fields of Iran, as well as those in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and
the Arab countries located around them. These became the main
suppliers. World consumption progressively increased to the fabulous
figure of approximately 80 million barrels a day, including those being
extracted on United States territory, to which later gas, hydro and nuclear
energies were added.”
“The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest
tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate
change.”
“In December of 1951, Libya becomes the first African country to attain
its independence after WW II, during which its territory was the stage for
important battles between the troops of Germany and the United Kingdom…”
“Ninety-five percent of its territory is completely made up of
desert. Technology permitted the discovery of vital oilfields of excellent
quality light oil that today reach one million 800 thousand barrels a day along
with abundant deposits of natural gas. […] Its harsh desert is located
over an enormous lake of fossil waters, equivalent to more than three times the
land area of Cuba; this has made it possible to construct a broad network of
pipelines of fresh water that stretch from one end of the country to the
other.”
“The Libyan Revolution took place in
the month of September of the year 1969. Its main leader was Muammar al-Gaddafi,
a soldier of Bedouin origin who, in his early years, was inspired by the ideas
of the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. Without any doubt, many of his
decisions are associated with the changes that were produced when, as in Egypt,
a weak and corrupt monarchy was overthrown in Libya.”
“One can agree with Gaddafi or
not. The world has been invaded with all kinds of news, especially using
the mass media. One has to wait the necessary length of time in order to
learn precisely what is the truth and what are lies, or a mixture of events of
every kind that, in the midst of chaos, were produced in Libya. For me,
what is absolutely clear is that the government of the United States is not in
the least worried about peace in Libya and it will not hesitate in giving NATO
the order to invade that rich country, perhaps in a matter of hours or a few
short days.”
“Those who with perfidious
intentions invented the lie that Gaddafi was headed for Venezuela, just as they
did yesterday afternoon on Sunday the 20th of February, today received an
fitting response from Foreign Affairs Minister Nicolás Maduro...”
“As for me, I cannot imagine that
the Libyan leader would abandon his country; escaping the responsibilities he
is charged with, whether or not they are partially or totally false.”
“An honest person shall always be
against any injustice being committed against any people in the world, and the
worst of all, at this moment, would be to remain silent in the face of the
crime that NATO is getting ready to commit against the Libyan people.”
“The leadership of that
war-mongering organization has to do it. We must condemn it!”
At that early date I had realized something that was absolutely obvious.
Tomorrow, on Tuesday October 25th, our chancellor Bruno Rodríguez will
speak at UN Headquarters to denounce the criminal blockade of the United States
against Cuba. We shall be closely following that battle which will once
again make clear the necessity of putting an end to, not just the blockade, but
the system that spawns injustice on our planet, squanders its natural resources
and puts human survival at risk. We shall be paying particular attention
to Cuba’s declaration.
I shall continue on Wednesday the 26th.
Fidel Castro Ruz
Monday,
October 24th, 2011
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