Fidel Castro isn't dead he lives on in
all of
us in all of our
children he lives on in
the masses in
Cuba and throughout Latin
America and throughout the poor masses
of the
world he lives on in South
Africa free because of the struggle of
the people of South Africa and their
allies the most important of which was
Cuba under the leadership of Fidel
Castro Fidel Castro lives
on in the hopes and
dreams of every poor person for a better
life in every single interview that I
have done today and I have done many I
have lost count of them I have been
relentlessly
grilled about human
rights but as Fidel Castro himself said
we hear a lot of talk about human rights
but what about the rights of humanity
why
should some children walk
Barefoot While others are expensively
clad and
transported why should some
live but 35 or 40
years While others live 80 or more why
should
some live lives of richness and variety
While others live lives of grim and
unrelenting
poverty that is a human rights
question it is a human rights
question as to whether your child will
survive its birth and
infancy children born in Cuba thanks to
the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel
Castro have a greater chance of life
than the children born in Washington
DC
official people who do survive their
infancy will live a longer life in
Cuba than they will in Washington DC
these two are human right
rights of
course there are
restrictions on some political
freedoms in Cuba how could it be
otherwise when Cuba has throughout the
entire
existence of the
Revolution been a country Under
Siege
assailed besieged and subverted
even to the point of foreign military
Invasion by its Mighty neighbor only 90
miles
away Fidel
Castro saw of 10 American
Presidents each one of whom was
dedicated to murdering him and
destroying the revolutionary process
hundreds upon hundreds of attempts were
made to assassinate the president of
Cuba Fidel
Castro and the
latest American
president the idiot
sa Donald
Trump tweeted this
morning that Fidel Castro was dead
well there are hundreds of millions of
people in the world
today who are mourning the passing of
Fidel
Castro and there are hundreds of
millions of people don't know whether to
laugh or cry at the
idea of the idiot Trump in his golden
tower in New York
being the so-called leader of the
so-called free
world that's the truth of the
matter I could go on very great length
and I will uh I'm going
to uh hold an event next weekend at
which I shall give a fuller longer
tribute to Fidel Castro than I can
today so look out for that if you are
interested but someone just asked me
from Associated Press
outside that was after seven straight
questions about human
rights what was the greatest
Legacy of course I tried to tour the
Horizon of Cuba's
achievements inside their own country
some of which I have alluded to
already but the greatest
Legacy is the internationalism of the
Cuban
Revolution and Rob knows this well as
does
Bob the Cubans always thank
you for the
solidarity that we in our own way give
to
them but the truth is it's we who should
be thanking
them
because the reason that the gold tooth
scar faces in Miami are dancing
today are precisely the reasons why we
are
mourning before the Cuban
Revolution the mafia ruled
Cuba the mafia had bought and paid for
the dictator of Cuba Al
Capon
trafficante mayor
Lans all these criminal casino pedlers
and broel Keepers had reduced
Cuba to not just a state of penury and
servitude with actual
aparte in place against black people in
Cuba but for them Cuba wasn't a country
at all it was just a kind of early Trump
Towers where the worst people in the
world could exercise their lust and
their
Vice the Cuban people meant nothing to
them and Cuba was a
Bor for
misery and for
oppression how different
today from
then as I tried to explain to my young
interviewer from Associated Press Cuba
is the coolest place on the planet
there are more people have been there or
want to go there than anywhere else in
the
world certainly far more than want to go
to
Miami certainly a second
time Cuba has become famous throughout
the world not just for its own
achievements but for its
internationalism
in
Kashmir when there was an
earthquake who were the first Rescuers
the first Engineers the first
Constructors the first
doctors to enter the earthquake stricken
zone of
Pakistan a country with no ideological
Affinity with Cuba at
all you know the answer
the Cubans were the
first when Ebola struck West
Africa and the Americans were sending
troops to keep the stricken people at
Bay the Cubans were sending
doctors in their hundreds to move
amongst the infected people to try to
cure them
who has cured more blind
people on the
Earth than Cuba what's that operation
Rob oper mirle operation
Miracle treating any and all and for
free giving them the gift of
sight which in many cases they had never
had without a penny changing hands
without any kind of political
conditions even one of the
murderers of
commandant had his sight
restored in operation
Miracle who left their bones in
Angola who left their bones in
Grenada who left their bones in the
Congo in Vietnam on the Golan Heights in
Syria where a brigade fought the Israeli
Army the Cubans left their bones and
their blood there is no country on earth
like Cuba and it will be remembered
Trump when you are long forgotten and in
the D of history Long forgotten
[Applause]
so what happens now well the ambassador
of she makes it back will tell
us but I feel absolutely
confident that the Cubans will never
agree to return to the days before the
Cuban
Revolution they will never
misery complete
immiseration
robbed by a corrupt political class and
their
allies for
decades I close with one anecdote which
I had forgotten that I used to
use but one of my friends reminded me
today one of our comrades John beavon
was traveling in a hard car in a very
remote part of
Cuba and he saw
two black women can
Cutters with
their machetes over their shoulders on a
long walk home from the fields he's a
fluent Spanish speaker he stopped to
give them a lift
one of the women
said it's wonderful that foreign
visitors are coming now to these
farflung parts of Cuba mind you she said
many
Cubans are traveling far a field
now my daughter she said daughter of a
black woman can cutter my daughter is
abroad she's a doctor working on an
international Mission there is no other
place probably in the entire world where
the black daughter of a can cutter is a
doctor and is working for free for other
people around the world
[Applause]
thank you very much George it's always a
a great pleasure to hear you speak and
you've been a great supporter of the
campaign for a number of years and thank
you for that um