Alarcón: "That demand tirelessly to free the Five is our promise to New Year
Comrades:
When the December 30, 1960 the revolutionary government created the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Cuba clung on imminent threat military aggression. Then millions of Cubans were vigilant in preparation for the attack that could occur at any time.
completed two years of tireless development, we were able to dismantle the structures of the old rotten regime, we fought an arduous battle against exploitation, ignorance and vices of the past, we had completely eliminated unemployment, were our factories and services public progressed Agrarian Reform and the Literacy Campaign, we lived with the joy of freedom won after great sacrifices and we would have worked to make justice prevail in our land finally emancipated.
were sunny days but also full of dangers. Since the First of January 1959 Empire is always to Cuba as the island was theirs, unleashed against our people, economic warfare, pressured other countries to try to isolate completely, gave shelter to the torturers and murderers Batista and his cronies and organized, armed, trained and managed to invade the country and force us to return to the ignominy and misery. Faced with an Empire which was then at the zenith of its power, completely dominated the Western Hemisphere and imposed its hegemony on the entire planet.
start the real discovery of the island of Cuba. Our heroic resistance astonished the world. Your Revolution became a "permanent incitement the noble human curiosity from all corners of the globe and especially in Latin America "as expressed by the founder of ICAP Law 901 on the initiative of Fidel Castro.
These fifty years of relentless slaughter. Browse our appreciation to each and every worker of this institution for their contribution, often anonymous, solidarity and friendship between the Cuban and other peoples. Those who initiated this noble work and their followers until today deserve our gratitude. Let
special tribute, especially those out of here, during these long years we have offered continued support. Those who were able to resist the persecution and hostility, who have not bowed to pressure or threats, which did not succumb to the lies and deceit, who learned to trust and love Cuba. Because
against Cuba and its Revolution, the Empire has not used military force alone, terrorism, sabotage and the fiercest and most extensive economic aggression, the genocidal blockade which began before the birth of the ICAP, before he was born most the current Cuban population. against Cuba and its Revolution the Empire has also been used and especially the lying and hiding the truth.
In this area, the manipulation of information and counterfeiting reality, the Empire has created a gigantic machine to which he devotes countless resources of all kinds.
the car is no longer the symbol of American society. Long ago was relegated to a secondary level of deception by the industry that large-scale and massive events corrupts, perverts the conscience and promotes the brutalization of human beings. His instruments are large corporations that dominate the media called and own the most powerful film companies, radio and television.
commodified culture and entertainment reduced to banal, hide or justify the worst crimes, distort and lie events; promote selfishness and greed, materialism and vulgarity; strip human beings of their ideals, their ability to think and love. Carry out anti-humanist juggernaut of the American people is the first major victim.
United States, since its origin, an imperialist, racist country as Noam Chomsky points out in a recent text. Its power is now concentrated, however, in a massive, aberrant, war industry could destroy the planet many times and in its propaganda arsenal that allows you to lull and deceive.
But the American people is not imperialistic and racist. It is a people need to live in peace with others and has the right to build within its borders a truly free and just society, which may not be obtained until the release of the control he exercises over a plutocracy ignorant and perverse.
With that power the imperialists have been able to practice against the Cuban people more prolonged genocide in history, so they can still rely on their own territory to the worst murderers - like the one in Miami has just published a book on the infamous that boasts of his crimes - so cruelly and unjustly kept in prison for five young men who sacrificed their lives to save his people and the world of terrorism that Washington would tolerate impunity.
Now, when approaching the day when America must respond to the petition for habeas corpus on behalf of Gerardo Hernandez, his last legal appeal, some U.S. media as miserable and cowardly slander and try to deceive and divert attention to confuse the solidarity movement. Regardless of the inalienable right of Cuba to defend its sovereignty in the trial against Gerardo and his companions in Miami was not presented evidence linking him with the unfortunate incident of February 24, 1996. In this decisive hour would have us forget that in May 2001 in a dramatic and urgent application to the Court of Appeals acknowledged that the prosecution itself had no entirely on evidence and requested to amend the indictment originally filed against our partner. Nevertheless, she was sentenced to brutal excesses by an alleged crime that did not exist and which in any case, Gerardo had absolutely nothing to do. It is impossible to find similar example of injustice.
urge the solidarity movement and all honest people to raise their voices in defense of Gerardo. The U.S. government knows he is innocent and that there was never evidence to charge him. We must demand that it release now. He and Ramón, Antonio, Fernando and René, five Heroes of the Republic of Cuba. President Obama can and should release them now same, unconditionally, immediately. To each and every one of them, the five, without exception.
rest is that it demands our New Year's promise. That the world prompted President Obama. He knows that it is possible and that he should.
Comrades:
solidarity is the strength and sap of the Revolution. It has always been for us since 1868 when, in our glorious October, inseparable began a struggle for national independence and the abolition of slavery, servitude and discrimination against human beings.
From the Great War children from other lands came to fight us for our freedom. The Party of José Martí was an internationalist party also created to achieve the independence of Puerto Rico and the unity of our America. There were many of our compatriots who went from here and from the migration to give their lives for the English Republic.
In the last half century has been extensive and generous solidarity that Cuba has received, and so has been the one that has given our people. Who could forget a day like today, the brothers who went to fight until the last breath to other lands? Who could forget Che and the many who were once like him?
Greet also the tens of thousands of employees who have gone to the far corners to help others, to bring health and education, playing an internationalist spirit and solidarity that set up the country and will always live with it.
The world has been in solidarity with Cuba because Cuba has meant much to the world. Because their revolution was an example that inspired others to persevere in the fight to win true independence and justice, those that illuminate with Alba and the American future.
Cuban women and Cubans we insist now on a broad democratic exercise to discuss and agree with everyone, excluding no one, the actions we must take to correct errors, eliminate defects and make changes that are necessary for our project more efficient, rational and fair. We do this in a country that is still a victim of the blockade, the harassment and assault of whom is still the strongest economic power and not get tired of hiring mercenaries willing to betray the country, coxcombs in which he does not believe them pay the allowance as confirmed by its own confidential reports revealed by Wikileaks.
Something very different is the people of Cuba. A people that no one ever forget, that was forged precisely in the fight against two empires and their servers mediocrity Creoles and was forged in a very long battle in which he always had as goals the complete independence and full justice to create a society based on solidarity would the Cubans. Among
will change all that must be changed. Together we will do whatever it takes, and we will do by ourselves, without copying anyone, without making any concessions to those who hate us and despise and be able to realize a better socialism, our, Cuba.
We will then also our duty to those who fight anywhere for a better world.
The international movement of solidarity with the Island was born half a century ago when it faced a challenge that seemed insurmountable. We were able to win and get here.
are big challenges ahead. Know to overcome them. We will be faithful to our martyrs, we will be loyal to those around the world have joined us in this long, hard and beautiful fight. Cuba
prevail. Our socialism will triumph. We will be able to continue fighting, together, onward to victory.
words in the Act for the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Havana, December 28, 2010
