Eleventh president of the USA
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Fidel Castro
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This past Tuesday January 20, 2009, Barack Obama took on the
leadership of the empire as the 11th President of the United States
since the victory of the Cuban Revolution on January 1959.
No one could doubt the sincerity of his words as he stated that he
would turn his country into a model of freedom and respect for human
rights in the world and for the independence of other peoples. This, of
course, could offend hardly anyone except for the misanthropes anywhere
in the world.
He has comfortably stated that imprisonment and torture at the
illegal Guatanamo Base would cease right away. This has been raising
doubts among those who worship terror as an indispensable instrument of
his country´s foreign policy.The smart and noble looks of the first
African-American President of the United States from its foundation as
an independent republic, two and one third of a century ago, had changed
under the inspiration of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King to
become the living symbol of the American dream.However, despite all he
has been through, Obama has not taken the main test: What will he do
when the immense power he now has proves to be absolutely useless to
overcome the insoluble antagonist contradictions posed by the system? I
have reduced the number of Reflections as I intended this year to avoid
interfering or getting in the way of the comrades from the Party and the
State as they are called to make constant decisions to tackle the
objective difficulties derived from the world economic crisis.
I feel well but, I insist, none of them should feel constrained by my
intermittent Reflections, my health condition or my death.I'm reviewing
speeches and materials I have elaborated in the course of more than
fifty years.I have had the strange privilege of witnessing the events
for this long. I receive information and I calmly meditate on the
developments. I hope not to enjoy such privilege within four years when
President Obama will have completed his first term.
Fidel Castro Ruz January 22, 2009 6:30 p.m
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