Reflections by comrade Fidel
THE 11TH
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
This past Tuesday January 20, 2009, Barack Obama took
on the leadership of the empire as the 11th President of the United
States since the victory of the Cuban Revolution on January 1959.
No one could doubt the sincerity of his words as he
stated that he would turn his country into a model of freedom and respect for
human rights in the world and for the independence of other peoples. This, of
course, could offend hardly anyone except for the misanthropes anywhere in the
world. He has comfortably stated that imprisonment and torture at the illegal
Guatanamo Base would cease right away. This has been raising doubts among those
who worship terror as an indispensable instrument of his country’s foreign
policy.
The smart and noble looks of the first African-American
President of the
However, despite all he has been through, Obama has
not taken the main test: What will he do when the immense power he now has
proves to be absolutely useless to overcome the insoluble antagonist
contradictions posed by the system?
I have reduced the number of Reflections as I intended this year to avoid interfering or getting
in the way of the comrades from the Party and the State as they are called to
make constant decisions to tackle the objective difficulties derived from the
world economic crisis. I feel well but, I insist, none of them should feel
constrained by my intermittent Reflections,
my health condition or my death.
I’m reviewing speeches and materials I have
elaborated in the course of more than fifty years.
I have had the strange privilege of witnessing the
events for this long. I receive information and I calmly meditate on the developments.
I hope not to enjoy such privilege within four years when President Obama will
have completed his first term.
Fidel Castro Ruz