Reflections
by Comrade Fidel
EVER
ONWARDS AND UPWARDS
Secondary Education students
met: their XI Congress was the occasion.
Listening to them, I felt wholesome pride and justifiable envy. What a privilege at that fertile age! If today university education has become
massive, so too a more important activity is massive: the battle of ideas before starting
university.
It would appear that nature
has determined human evolution to make us capable, from a very early age, of
having consciousness prevail over instinct.
My dear comrades of the Federation of Middle Education Students: that
will be your battle.
Today, the greatest effort of
the decadent and unsustainable empire is to deprive us of the right to
knowledge and thinking. Meditate a
moment on the petty effort made by the ringleader of that empire to prevent our
people access to the Internet; Rosa Miriam, a young and profound journalist,
denounces this in an article, adding information that The New York Times, in its article criticizing the deed, does not
even mention:
“…OFAC (the Office of Foreign
Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury) black list shows 557
“accursed” enterprises in the entire world and 3719 .com domains that have been
blocked in the Network without any previous notification to its owners... the
United States has blocked almost three times more sites than all those the
country has registered under the generic of our country...."
“This is new evidence that
the
She refers to the policy
pursued by Bush during his term in office.
Even though her article was published in Juventud Rebelde, it is worthwhile to repeat the
abovementioned information.
What a response there was in
the statements of the Middle Education students! Is there anything like it in
Forward, young Cuban
students! Let us fight against egoism,
vanity and the sterile ambition for glory which are serpents devouring human
souls; let us be the bearers of ideas and conscience, ever onward and upward,
together with our glorious forefathers.
Fidel Castro Ruz