By Stella Calloni
Renowned Argentine writer, journalist and international analyst. Latin American Journalism Prize “José Martí” (1986).
His strong, warm and brilliant speech once again shook the lethargy of international organizations by demonstrating wisdom, coherence and revolutionary courage to defend the rights of his country and people, which will go down in the history of resistance in the world.
Many offices were held by Alarcón, a genuine communist militant who, like the unforgettable Foreign Minister at the start of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Roa García, revolutionized the language with which he faced the Empire at his own headquarters.
Certainly, Ricardo Alarcón would be proud of the current Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, and of the Cuban diplomats who, in the long struggle against imperial power, have made diplomacy a model alongside other issues such as education, health and culture.
This should be registered in all academies of our countries as a constant in the anti-colonial struggle in the field of foreign relations, where every capitulation is paid with a very high price.
Alarcón’s death came at a time when a Cuban cultural and artistic delegation was in Buenos Aires for the book fair held there, dedicated to Havana that year.
Meanwhile, the Cuban people took to the streets in the May Day mobilization in what, by its scale, was an exceptional response to the United States’ terrorist actions against Cuba.
Republican President Donald Trump’s administration added more than two hundred sanctions, tightened by current Democratic President Joe Biden, and tightened the war siege the United States is maintaining against Cuba in a more than 60-year blockade.
If you think in biblical terms, it is the fight of David against Goliath, and the giant was never able to bend the revolution and its principles, the Cuban people, who must be constantly honored for their incredible resilience and solidarity.
Alarcón was honored in his country for this mobilization of blocs and blocs that impacted the world and showed once again that Cuba still stands and fights against all odds as a true revolution does, an antidote to the decadent, savage capitalism of that Time.
He was also remembered here and by peoples throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. But also in many other places in the world.
ABOUT THE BLOCKADE AND OTHER INFAMILIES
Thanks to Cuba’s profound and creative diplomatic work, the number of countries demanding the lifting of the blockade, defended only by the United States and Israel, is renewed and growing every year.
Is it possible that in this 21st century, the will of the majority of the world’s countries will be constrained by the arrogance of an empire that continues to violate international standards and the rights of peoples, including basic human rights? As attempts to overthrow the revolution continue, so does Cuba’s increasingly heroic resistance.
The United States is no longer the world’s sole power, crippling the dictatorial unilateralism that since the 1990s has sought to make Washington the headquarters of world government to dominate and subjugate humanity.
About all this spoke to us Alarcón, who for 20 years was the powerful voice of the National Assembly of People’s Power, drawing on the deepest and most creative that the Cuban Revolution had achieved not only in its defense but also in other countries such as Puerto Rico, whose anti-colonial struggle contributed so much and is remembered today.
He accompanied Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and explained to the world that preventing the arrival of food, products of all kinds, medicines and equipment to drive a people to despair because of hunger or need is also terrorism.
A people whose heroism writes the best story of a long struggle for liberation, both from the Spanish crown in its imperial age and from the empire that replaced the previous one and ended the independence of our countries.
We listen to your voice and your word in defense of the five counter-terrorist heroes who have been subjected to inhumane prison conditions since 1998 simply for discovering the nests in Miami of the terrorist snake that has ravaged Cuba from the early 1960s to the present day .
“No one was more eloquent and persistent. Nobody was more consistent. No one supported the ideas and decisions of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, regarding the cause of the Five more than his own,” Fernando González, one of the Five Heroes, told Prensa Latina.
Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino and René González complete the list of these five heroic men released for exemplary international service to the world.
Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández and Antonio Guerrero arrived in Cuba on December 17, 2014 – before they were René and Fernando – marking the end of more than ten years of struggle to free the five from unjust imprisonment. American.
They were received in Havana with great demonstrations and artistic expressions. Meeting Comandante Fidel Castro, who had waited so long to arrive and who was at the forefront of the fight to free the Five, was beyond exciting. It was one of the great joys of the leader of the Cuban Revolution before his death on November 25, 2016.
BRILLIANT ANSWERS
I’ve interviewed Ricardo Alarcón several times for Mexican newspapers and magazines, always with brilliant answers, to find new ways to confront the Empire.
I was infinitely grateful to him for presenting my book on Operation Condor at one of the book fairs in Havana, and his intervention was an appeal to me not to abandon this solitary research, he encouraged me at all times in my work and suggested a bibliography to include an enormous generosity.
It is an indispensable voice now as we see our people rise from the ashes, but we must break all the scourges of colonization and the weaknesses of some leftists – entangled in labyrinths peculiar to the colonized – who must break those bonds , because it is so, has easily fallen prey to the vanities of false powers.
Latin America has much to learn from Cuban diplomacy that should be absorbed into the faculties of our universities, especially at a time when our continent faces a silent war of counterinsurgency recolonization and requires the organization and unity of Our America.
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, like other great revolutionaries, left us the path open to our liberation, and along this path I want to express my solidarity with his family and comrades.
Likewise, we deeply thank the Cuban Revolution for the eternal solidarity of its leadership and people for all that it gives us, which nourishes the dream and hope of regaining our independence, of gaining freedom from the criminal empire from which we still live are dependent.
Always to victory, Ricardo Alarcón.
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