A little over
eight months ago, on February 21st of this year, I stated with complete
conviction: “The NATO plan is to occupy
I include in these
lines the elements for the opinion that led me to that conclusion.
“Oil has become
the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals;
through this energy source they had an instrument that considerably expanded
their political power in the world.”
“Upon this energy
source today’s civilization was developed.
“At the end of the
last World War, it started to extract greater amounts of oil from the oil
fields of
“The squandering
of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the
least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.”
“In December of
1951,
“Ninety-five
percent of its territory is completely made up of desert. Technology
permitted the discovery of vital oilfields of excellent quality light oil that
today reach one million 800 thousand barrels a day along with abundant deposits
of natural gas. […] Its harsh desert is located over an enormous lake of
fossil waters, equivalent to more than three times the land area of
“The Libyan
Revolution took place in the month of September of the year 1969. Its main
leader was Muammar al-Gaddafi, a soldier of Bedouin origin who, in his early
years, was inspired by the ideas of the Egyptian leader Gamal
Abdel Nasser. Without any doubt, many of his
decisions are associated with the changes that were produced when, as in
“One can agree
with Gaddafi or not. The world has been invaded with all kinds of news,
especially using the mass media. One has to wait the necessary length of
time in order to learn precisely what is the truth and what are lies, or a
mixture of events of every kind that, in the midst of chaos, were produced in
Libya. For me, what is absolutely clear is that the government of the
“Those who with
perfidious intentions invented the lie that Gaddafi was headed for
“As for me, I
cannot imagine that the Libyan leader would abandon his country; escaping the
responsibilities he is charged with, whether or not they are partially or
totally false.”
“An honest person
shall always be against any injustice being committed against any people in the
world, and the worst of all, at this moment, would be to remain silent in the
face of the crime that NATO is getting ready to commit against the Libyan
people.”
“The leadership of
that war-mongering organization has to do it. We must condemn it!”
At that early date
I had realized something that was absolutely obvious.
Tomorrow, on
Tuesday October 25th, our chancellor Bruno Rodríguez
will speak at UN Headquarters to denounce the criminal blockade of the
I shall continue
on Wednesday the 26th.
Fidel Castro Ruz
5:19 p.m.