Message from Fidel to President Nicolás Maduro
Honorable Mr. Nicolás Maduro,
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
As has been announced in the
media, tomorrow, Tuesday, March 17, an ALBA Summit will take place in Caracas
to discuss the weird US government policy against Venezuela and ALBA.
It was Chávez himself who
came across the idea of creating that organization, for he was willing to share
with his Caribbean brothers and sisters the abundant economic resources with which Nature had endowed his home country and which had ended
up in the hands of powerful US companies and a handful of Venezuelan
millionaires.
Corruption and squander were
the main incentives of the first fascist-like oligarchy which
was addicted to violence and crime. Violence and crime then became so intolerable for the heroic people
of Venezuela that they could hardly ever forget about it and they will never
consent to going back to the shameful past of the pre-revolutionary era that
led to the storming of shopping centers and the murder of thousands of persons whose
numbers no one has been able to accurately estimate even today.
Simón Bolívar fully devoted
himself to the colossal task of liberating the continent. More than a half of the best sons and
daughters of his people fought and died throughout many years of ceaseless
struggle. With less than one per cent of
the planet surface, Venezuela has the biggest reserves of hydrocarbons in the
world. For an entire century, it was forced to produce all the fuel that the European powers
and the United States needed. Even today, when the hydrocarbons that were formed after millions
of years would be consumed in no more than a century, and we, the human beings,
who are today 7.2 billion will double that figure within a hundred years time
and will total 21 billion within two hundred years time, only the prodigies of
the most advanced technologies could perhaps allow the human species to survive
for a little longer.
Why isn’t the fabulous media
being used to inform and educate peoples on these realities, that should be
known to every person in his or her right mind, and it is being used instead to
promote deception?
An ALBA Summit can not ignore these realities that are so close to us.
The Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela has unmistakably declared that it has always been ready to hold
discussions, in a peaceful and civilized way, with the US government, but it
will never accept threats or impositions from that country.
I should add that I have been
able to observe not only the attitude adopted by the heroic people of Bolívar
and Chávez, but also the existence of a special circumstance:
the exemplary discipline and spirit of the National Bolivarian Armed
Forces. No matter what the US
imperialism intends to do, it will never be able to count on their support to
do what it did for so many years. Today,
Venezuela has the best equipped soldiers and officers
of Latin America.
Recently, when you met with
the army officers, it was obvious that they were ready to give their last drop of
blood for their Homeland.
A fraternal hug to all
Venezuelans, to the ALBA peoples and to you.
Fidel Castro Ruz
March 16, 2015
11:14 p.m.