Activities led by the Antillean nation’s ambassador to the Isthmus, Víctor Cairo, also included a discussion at the diplomatic headquarters highlighting the statesman’s legacy.
Members of the State Mission, the National Coordinator of Solidarity with Cuba, social organizations and the Mars Association of Cuban Residents of the Channel Country took part in the commemorative events, among others.
The best tribute we can pay to Fidel today and forever is not only to learn from his ideals, but also to be like him and fight for unity and love for our people as they have in the various Commemorative acts of the life and work of the commander in Boss have shown.
In the 1950s, Fidel Castro led one of Latin America’s most influential insurgency movements and, with his victory, commanded one of the most influential left-wing governments.
As the founder of the first socialist state in the Western Hemisphere, the historic Cuban leader designed, directed and implemented a foreign policy of clear independence and global expansion and an internationalist teaching profession.
Furthermore, at the global level, it promoted the Third World’s struggle against the current world economic order, particularly foreign debt, the waste of resources through military spending and neoliberal globalization.
He advocated a policy of solidarity among the oppressed and respect for sovereignty within the Non-Aligned Movement, an organization of which Cuba was a founder in 1961.
His role in consolidating the revolutionary process; the country’s economic and social changes; the development of education, health, sport, culture and science; Resistance to US aggression and calls for unity in the region made him a universal symbol of resistance.
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