[NYTr] Fidel Castro:" CHE"
 
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 03:48:37 -0500 (CDT)

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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Fidel Castro: "Che"

Havana, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Fidel Castro termed
Commander Ernesto Che Guevara an exceptional combatant and a mastermind
of consciences in our America and the world, on the the 40th
anniversary of his death. In his article Monday entitled "Che," the
Cuban Revolution leader highlighted the revolutionary struggle and
example left by the heroic guerrilla fighter, of whom he said: he
still fights with us and for us. 

The island's statesman also paid tribute to the victims of the mid-air
explosion of a Cubana airliner off the coast of Barbados on October 6,
1976 and the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in
United States. "We likewise bow our heads in respect to them all,"
Fidel Castro stated. Prensa Latina issues below reflections by the
Cuban president:

REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF: 

CHE

by Fidel Castro Ruz

I make a halt in my daily struggle to bow my head in respect and
gratitude to the exceptional combatant who fell in combat on October
8th, forty years ago; for the example he passed on to us as leader of
his Rebel Army Column, crossing the swampy grounds of the former
provinces of Oriente and Camaguey, while being chased by enemy troops.
He was the liberator of the city of Santa Clara and the mastermind of
voluntary work; he accomplished honorable political missions abroad and
served as messenger of militant internationalism in East Congo and
Bolivia.  He built a new awareness in our America and the world. 

I thank him for what he tried and failed to do in his home country,
because he was like a flower prematurely severed from its stem. He left
to us his unmistakable literary style. 

He was elegant, swift and true  to every detail of whatever happened to
cross his mind.  He was a "predestinate," but he didn't know it.  He
still fights with us and for us. 

Yesterday, we commemorated the 31st anniversary of the killing of
all passengers and the crew of a Cubana airliner blown in mid-air, and
we are on the threshold of the tenth anniversary of the cruel and
unjust imprisonment of the five Cuban anti-terrorist heroes.  We
likewise bow our heads in respect to them all. 

It was with great emotion that I watched and heard the commemoration
ceremony on TV.

Havana, October 7, 2007, 3:17 pm 
       
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