Fidel Castro

Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro addressed hundreds of university students Friday morning on different aspects related to the danger posed on humanity by the possible outbreak of a nuclear war.

Wearing his traditional olive green uniform, Fidel arrived at the historic stairs of the University of Havana to meet hundreds of university students, other children from nearby schools, and people in general, who packed at the place since very early hours to listen to what their historic leader had to
tell them.

Fidel began by reading his Message to the University Students in which he recalled the historic deeds undertaken by revolutionary youths before the 1959 revolutionary triumph.  He recalled the tough times the Cuban people faced under capitalism and the atrocities committed by previous regimes
against those who fought for freedom. 

“This university stairs, to which I never thought I would return again, brings to mind unforgettable memories of the years I started to become aware of our times and our duties. It is unavoidable to recall so many comrades I met some 65 years ago. Our struggle for National Liberation mixed with
the effort of our workers; it was not a random event.”

Fidel kept on reading his message to the youth as he went into the main topic to address: the real danger of a nuclear war that must be avoided.

“It is well known and I have no other choice than recalling the fact that we are no longer living in the old times of the cavalries,” said Fidel as he referred to the destructive power of modern weapons.

The Cuban leader recalled that the United States was the first country to use nuclear weapons against another nation, when two nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, in the end of WWII.

Fidel Castro warned on the huge consequences the use of nuclear weapons would bring at present by saying that this kind of weapons are 440 thousand times more destructive than the atomic bombs  launched by the United States against Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The time that humanity has left is limited, he warned again, and recalled that “we are no longer in the times when weapons with limited destructive power prevailed, as it happened in the past.”

He described some of weapons used in the First and Second World Wars, which left long-term effects. “The use of two terrible nuclear weapons in the end of WWII was never thought of by the inhabitants of the Earth; however the current nuclear weapons multiply the destructive power of the first ones
used then.”

It has been Cuba’s difficult duty to warn humanity about the real danger facing it; we must not dismay. In the face of the skeptical, our duty is to keep waging this battle, he stressed. 

Just the real possibility that human beings may perish, must lead over 7 billion people to try to avoid such a catastrophe, Fidel said and called on the Cuban youth to keep waging the battle against war. He said a growing number of people in the world are becoming aware of this reality.

“Let human life be preserved, so that the children and youths enjoy it in a world of justice, so that parents and grandparents shared with them the privilege of living.”

And Fidel concluded by saying that “as in other times I said, I appreciate your moral support for this battle for peace, and I called on you to keep fighting in this direction, since in this, like in many struggles of the past, we can reach the victory.”

The rally opened at 7:30. The first one to speak was the president of the University Students  Federation Maydel Gonzalez, who expressed the support of Cuban students to the struggle aimed at avoiding a nuclear war.

The university is a symbol of peace. We are here to avoid the war. Love for life is the devotion of all of us. Let’s unite, because the war cannot be the alternative of the peoples and take this message to all corners of the world.

Let’s struggle for peace, Life would never forgive us if we do less than this, said the youth leader.

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