Reflections by Cuban President Fidel Castro on Che Guevara
Published Oct 14, 2007 11:29 PM
Reprinted from the Oct. 8th front page of Granma.
I make a halt in my daily struggle to bow my head in respect and gratitude
to the exceptional combatant who fell in combat on Oct. 8th, forty years
ago; for the example he passed on to us as leader of his Rebel Army Column,
crossing the swampy grounds of the former provinces of Oriente and
Camagüey, while being chased by enemy troops.
He was the liberator of the city of Santa Clara and the mastermind of voluntary
work; he accomplished honorable political missions abroad and served as
messenger of militant internationalism in East Congo and Bolivia. He built a
new awareness in our America and the world.
I thank him for what he tried and failed to do in his home country, because he
was like a flower prematurely severed from its stem.
He left to us his unmistakable literary style. He was elegant, swift and true
to every detail of whatever happened to cross his mind. He was a predestinate,
but he didn’t know it. He still fights with us and for us.
Yesterday, we commemorated the 31st anniversary of the killing of all
passengers and the crew of a Cubana airliner blown up in mid-air, and we are on
the threshold of the tenth anniversary of the cruel and unjust imprisonment of
the five Cuban anti-terrorist heroes.
We likewise bow our heads in respect to them all.
It was with great emotion that I watched and heard the commemoration ceremony
on TV.
Fidel Castro Ruz
Oct. 7, 2007
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