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Fidel Castro isn't dead he lives on in

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all of

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us in all of our

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children he lives on in

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the masses in

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Cuba and throughout Latin

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America and throughout the poor masses

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of the

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world he lives on in South

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Africa free because of the struggle of

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the people of South Africa and their

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allies the most important of which was

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Cuba under the leadership of Fidel

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Castro Fidel Castro lives

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on in the hopes and

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dreams of every poor person for a better

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life in every single interview that I

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have done today and I have done many I

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have lost count of them I have been

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relentlessly

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grilled about human

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rights but as Fidel Castro himself said

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we hear a lot of talk about human rights

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but what about the rights of humanity

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why

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should some children walk

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Barefoot While others are expensively

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clad and

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transported why should some

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live but 35 or 40

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years While others live 80 or more why

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should

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some live lives of richness and variety

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While others live lives of grim and

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unrelenting

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poverty that is a human rights

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question it is a human rights

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question as to whether your child will

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survive its birth and

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infancy children born in Cuba thanks to

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the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel

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Castro have a greater chance of life

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than the children born in Washington

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DC

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official people who do survive their

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infancy will live a longer life in

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Cuba than they will in Washington DC

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these two are human right

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rights of

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course there are

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restrictions on some political

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freedoms in Cuba how could it be

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otherwise when Cuba has throughout the

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entire

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existence of the

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Revolution been a country Under

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Siege

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assailed besieged and subverted

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even to the point of foreign military

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Invasion by its Mighty neighbor only 90

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miles

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away Fidel

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Castro saw of 10 American

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Presidents each one of whom was

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dedicated to murdering him and

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destroying the revolutionary process

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hundreds upon hundreds of attempts were

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made to assassinate the president of

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Cuba Fidel

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Castro and the

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latest American

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president the idiot

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sa Donald

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Trump tweeted this

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morning that Fidel Castro was dead

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well there are hundreds of millions of

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people in the world

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today who are mourning the passing of

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Fidel

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Castro and there are hundreds of

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millions of people don't know whether to

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laugh or cry at the

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idea of the idiot Trump in his golden

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tower in New York

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being the so-called leader of the

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so-called free

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world that's the truth of the

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matter I could go on very great length

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and I will uh I'm going

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to uh hold an event next weekend at

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which I shall give a fuller longer

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tribute to Fidel Castro than I can

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today so look out for that if you are

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interested but someone just asked me

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from Associated Press

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outside that was after seven straight

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questions about human

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rights what was the greatest

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Legacy of course I tried to tour the

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Horizon of Cuba's

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achievements inside their own country

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some of which I have alluded to

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already but the greatest

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Legacy is the internationalism of the

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Cuban

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Revolution and Rob knows this well as

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does

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Bob the Cubans always thank

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you for the

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solidarity that we in our own way give

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to

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them but the truth is it's we who should

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be thanking

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them

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because the reason that the gold tooth

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scar faces in Miami are dancing

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today are precisely the reasons why we

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are

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mourning before the Cuban

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Revolution the mafia ruled

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Cuba the mafia had bought and paid for

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the dictator of Cuba Al

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Capon

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trafficante mayor

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Lans all these criminal casino pedlers

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and broel Keepers had reduced

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Cuba to not just a state of penury and

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servitude with actual

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aparte in place against black people in

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Cuba but for them Cuba wasn't a country

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at all it was just a kind of early Trump

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Towers where the worst people in the

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world could exercise their lust and

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their

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Vice the Cuban people meant nothing to

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them and Cuba was a

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Bor for

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misery and for

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oppression how different

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today from

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then as I tried to explain to my young

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interviewer from Associated Press Cuba

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is the coolest place on the planet

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there are more people have been there or

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want to go there than anywhere else in

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the

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world certainly far more than want to go

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to

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Miami certainly a second

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time Cuba has become famous throughout

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the world not just for its own

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achievements but for its

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internationalism

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Kashmir when there was an

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earthquake who were the first Rescuers

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the first Engineers the first

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Constructors the first

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doctors to enter the earthquake stricken

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zone of

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Pakistan a country with no ideological

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Affinity with Cuba at

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all you know the answer

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the Cubans were the

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first when Ebola struck West

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Africa and the Americans were sending

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troops to keep the stricken people at

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Bay the Cubans were sending

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doctors in their hundreds to move

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amongst the infected people to try to

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cure them

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who has cured more blind

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people on the

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Earth than Cuba what's that operation

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Rob oper mirle operation

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Miracle treating any and all and for

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free giving them the gift of

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sight which in many cases they had never

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had without a penny changing hands

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without any kind of political

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conditions even one of the

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murderers of

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commandant had his sight

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restored in operation

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Miracle who left their bones in

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Angola who left their bones in

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Grenada who left their bones in the

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Congo in Vietnam on the Golan Heights in

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Syria where a brigade fought the Israeli

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Army the Cubans left their bones and

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their blood there is no country on earth

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like Cuba and it will be remembered

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Trump when you are long forgotten and in

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the D of history Long forgotten

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[Applause]

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so what happens now well the ambassador

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of she makes it back will tell

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us but I feel absolutely

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confident that the Cubans will never

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agree to return to the days before the

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Cuban

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Revolution they will never

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misery complete

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immiseration

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robbed by a corrupt political class and

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their

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allies for

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decades I close with one anecdote which

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I had forgotten that I used to

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use but one of my friends reminded me

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today one of our comrades John beavon

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was traveling in a hard car in a very

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remote part of

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Cuba and he saw

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two black women can

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Cutters with

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their machetes over their shoulders on a

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long walk home from the fields he's a

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fluent Spanish speaker he stopped to

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give them a lift

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one of the women

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said it's wonderful that foreign

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visitors are coming now to these

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farflung parts of Cuba mind you she said

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many

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Cubans are traveling far a field

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now my daughter she said daughter of a

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black woman can cutter my daughter is

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abroad she's a doctor working on an

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international Mission there is no other

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place probably in the entire world where

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the black daughter of a can cutter is a

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doctor and is working for free for other

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people around the world

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[Applause]

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thank you very much George it's always a

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a great pleasure to hear you speak and

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you've been a great supporter of the

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campaign for a number of years and thank

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you for that um