THE FACTOR FIDEL

Revolutions, revolutionaries, and revolutionary people should be inspired by the Factor Fidel; otherwise it is very difficult to complete successfully their task. Let us explain.

Every Revolution involves great sacrifices; it is not possible to think of profound changes without facing adversity.

Roads with no obstacles are typical of fairy tales and not from the reality of the social struggle. It is not unreasonable to say that the prepared peoples for misery are those that have the right to travel paths of happiness. We can say that the revolutionary success of a people is directly related to the size of the difficulties that can support without leaving its dreams.

The lifetime of great revolutionaries, the history of the great revolutions is a chair; it is an example of performance against misfortune. Someone called Bolivar the man of adversities; and what better example of “El Paso de Los Andes” to illustrate the achievements of a people when gets steep beyond its own strengths, overcoming mountains in its fight against fatality.

Recent history provides us an extraordinary example of this revolutionary behaviour: Fidel, heir of the best traditions of the great revolutionaries of the continent and the world. In 1953, he attacks the Moncada Barracks, and the dictatorship massacred the boys that participated in this heroic action, he is captured, so he converted the adversity of imprisonment in a school of thought, it is what he called the fertile prison. He keeps in his revolutionary zeal and goes to Mexico -not a comfortable exile but to prepare the Revolution. He returns to the Granma, and soon, in the battle of “Alegría de Pío” looses the majority of his army of revolutionaries, he is unarmed, and in these conditions of extreme difficulty, he launches its main slogan: We shall defeat! (Venceremos). Then Revolution triumphed, and the history is filled with Fidel’s tenacity.

But when the Soviet Union fell, and the ninety miles island of the empire is helpless -as a straw within the storm of an adverse world- when Fidel grows with perseverance and save Cuba, and with it the socialist hope of humanity.

Reviewing Fidel’s life is an encounter with the conduct of a man who thrives on the difficulties, fights them, overcomes them and builds the possibility of redemption of his people.

The revolutionaries of the world must imbue with the factor Fidel:

When it seems that everything is lost, let’s move on.

Let’s not faint face difficulties, despite the abyss, let’s move forward.

The duty of revolutionaries is to make Revolution!!

With Chavez more than ever!!