The Venezuelan President sends Fidel congratulations and celebrates the 62nd anniversary of the revolutionary assaults on the Batista dictatorship’s Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrisons, July 26, 1953
July 28, 2015 10:07:46
Miraflores, July 26, 2015
Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz
Our father and teacher:
From the heart of the people of Bolívar and Chávez, I would like
to send you testimony of our respect, admiration and affection, 62 years since
the assaults on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrisons. On this
glorious anniversary, we celebrate your dear presence and the indispensable
reference you represent. We celebrate the father and teacher of revolutionary
men and women of Our America and the world – the father and teacher of our
beloved son, our Eternal Comandante.
We celebrate the great leader who at the head of a handful of
the brave, a group of women and men motivated by what Martí called patriotic
shame, headed what would become a real, true assault on the future.
That July 26 of 1953, heroism and sacrifice shone at their
highest level to vindicate the brilliant, lasting legacy of José Martí. Not in
vain, in that memorable defense which is your ‘History will resolve me,’ you
indicated that the intellectual author and maximum leader of the assault was
none other than Martí.
Sixty-two years have now passed since the Moncada and Carlos
Manuel de Céspedes assaults, yet, Comandante Fidel, today we feel more than
ever the living flame of liberation which burns this day throughout Our
America, and beyond, lighting a path which several generations have already
followed, a path which continues and will continue.
Since 1953, until our days, the spirit of many Moncadas has
kindled and kindles the struggles of the Greater Homeland’s peoples for our definitive
independence. It can well be said that July 26 has reached a long life. And as
the great Cuban singer-songwriter Noel Nicola said, there is a calendar full of
26ths.
Haydée Santamaría, Melba Hernández, Raúl Gómez García, Boris
Santa Coloma, Abel Santamaría, Giraldo Córdova Cardín, Juan Almeida, there are
so many dear names of those who have physically departed, but who continue to
illuminate from the place so beautifully named by the immense Cuban voice which
is Fina García Marruz, ... there where the light does not forget its warriors.
Every July 26, when the past again assaults us, Comandante, the
memory shines bright once more to remind those of us who have made the banner
of Revolution our own, that only the sacrifices raise and make possible a
future more our own.
Believe me, Comandante, the unforgettable memory of Moncada is
projected in us, men and women, as our most irrefutable revolutionary
commitment. We are sons and daughters of Bolívar, as we are of José Martí,
Fidel and Che. Certainly, true revolutions are not carbon copies, as Mariátegui
said, but rather heroic creations of each people. But we are conscious that the
Cuban Revolution is the fundamental cornerstone within the Greater Homeland’s
historic development.
The homeland is an altar, not a pedestal, Martí said. That
combatative consummation that was the Moncada assault, seen from a distance, is
the historical incarnation of the sacrificial stone envisioned by Martí, before
which the best of human souls are left, to then await revelations. And just
look what a collective revelation that July 26 generated: a victorious
Revolution.
I imagine that when the decisive hour in 1953 arrived, in you,
Comandante, that impressive certainty resonated, based on Martí’s belief that
the true man does not look to the side where one lives better, but to the side
of duty, and this is the same practical man whose dream of today will be the
rule of tomorrow.
On dates such as this of dignity and victory, the presence of
our giant can be felt with greater intensity. More intimately today, Fidel, I
recall his words for you because I identify with them, and fully subscribe to
them: I would like to render tribute to Fidel and to his long walk among our
peoples, awakening us. Fidel is a soldier, a dreamer, undoubtedly an example
for us and for entire generations of Latin Americans, Caribbeans and fighters
around the world.
With great revolutionary fervor, accept the strongest and most
infinite of embraces from one who feels himself a Moncadista of these times of
Latin American and Caribbean Revolution.
Chávez lives, the homeland advances!
Forever onward to victory!
Independence and a socialist homeland!
We will live and win!
Long live the sisterhood of Cuba and Venezuela!
Long live Chávez!
Long live Fidel!
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