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• CUBA REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL CASTRO

• OUR AMERICA Havana. June 28, 2010
• INTERNATIONAL
• CULTURE REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL
• SPORTS Finding out the truth in time
• MORE (Taken from CubaDebate)
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WHEN I was writing one of my previous reflections, as a disaster for
COMMUNICATE
humanity was rapidly approaching, my greatest concern was to
WITH THE fulfill the elemental duty of informing our people.
FIVE HEROES

Today I feel calmer than 26 days ago. As things continue happening

• REFLECTIONS in the short term, I can reiterate and enrich information to national
OF FIDEL and international public opinion.
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Obama promised to attend the quarter-final game on July 2 if his
country won in the second round. He must know, more than
anybody, that those quarter finals could not take place if extremely
grave events should happen beforehand, or at least he should know
that.
Last Friday, June 25, an international news agency of known
attention to detail in the information that it provides, published
statements from "…the naval commander of the elite corps of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guards, General Ali Fadavi…" warning that
"… if the United States and its allies inspect Iranian ships in
international waters ‘they will receive a response in the Persian Gulf
and the Strait of Hormuz.’"

The information was taken from the national Mehr news agency of
Iran.

That agency, according to the cable, communicated: "Fadawi added

that ‘the Navy of the Revolutionary Guard currently has hundreds of
vessels fitted with missile launchers.’"

The information, written almost at the same time as the one

published in Granma, or perhaps before, seemed at certain points a
carbon copy of the paragraphs of the Reflection written on
Thursday, June 24 and published in that newspaper on Friday 25th.

The coincidence can be explained by the elemental use of logical

reasoning that I always apply. I was not aware of one word of what
was published by the national Iranian agency.

I do not harbor the slightest doubt that as soon as the warships of

the United States and Israel take up their positions – together with
the rest of the U.S. military vessels located in the vicinity of the
Iranian coasts – and attempt to inspect that country’s first merchant
ship, a rain of missiles will be unleashed in both directions. That will
be the precise moment when that terrible war will begin. It is not
possible to foresee how many ships will be sunk nor of what ensign.

Finding out the truth in time is the most important thing for our
people.

It doesn’t matter that by natural instinct, almost everybody; it could

be said 99.9% or more of my compatriots, are conserving hope and
agreeing with me with the sincere desire of being wrong. I have
talked with people in my closest circles and, at the same time, have
received news from so many noble, altruistic and conscientious
citizens who, on reading my Reflections, do not contest my
considerations in the least, but assimilate, believe and instantly
swallow the reasoning that I expound but who, nevertheless,
immediately give their attention to fulfilling their work to which
they devote their energies.

That is precisely what we desire of our compatriots. The worst things

is to suddenly become aware of news of extremely grave events,
without having heard any news whatsoever of such a possibility
beforehand; then confusion and panic spreads, something that
would be unworthy of a heroic people like the Cubans, who were at
the point of being the target of a massive nuclear attack in October
1962, and did not hesitate for an instant to fulfill their duty.

During their undertaking of heroic internationalist missions, valiant

combatants and chiefs of our Revolutionary Armed Forces were at
the point of becoming the victims of nuclear attacks on the Cuban
troops who were approaching the southern border with Angola,
from where the racist South African forces had been evicted after
the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, entrenching themselves on the border
with Namibia.

With the knowledge of the U.S. president, the Pentagon supplied the
South African racists via Israel with approximately 14 nuclear
weapons, more powerful than those launched on the Japanese cities
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as we have explained in other
reflections.

I am not a prophet or a fortune teller. Nobody said a single word to

me about what was going to happen; all of it is the fruit of what
today I am describing as logical reasoning.

We are not novices nor are we interfering in this complicated

subject.

In the nuclear post-crisis, it can be augured what will occur in the

rest of Ibero-American speaking America.

In such circumstances, one cannot talk of capitalism or socialism.

Only that a stage of the administration of goods and services
available in this part of the continent will open up. Inevitably, each
country will continue to be governed by those who are currently
leading the government, a number of them very close to socialism
and others full of euphoria at the prospect of a world market now
opening for fuel, uranium, copper, lithium, aluminum, iron and
other metals that are currently being sent to the developed and rich
countries in that world market, which will suddenly disappear.

Abundant foodstuffs currently being exported to that world market

will also abruptly disappear.

In such circumstances, the most basic products required in order to

live: foodstuffs, water, fuels and the resources of the hemisphere to
the south of the United States, are there in abundance for
maintaining a little bit of civilization, the uncontrolled advances of
which have led humanity to such a disaster.

However, some things are still very unclear at the present moment;
can the two most powerful nuclear powers, the United States and
Russia, abstain from using their nuclear weapons against one
another?

What remains in no doubt whatsoever is that, from Europe, the

nuclear weapons of Britain and France, allies of the United States
and Israel – and which enthusiastically imposed the resolution that
will inevitably unleash war, and a war that, given the reasons
explained, will immediately become a nuclear war – are a threat to
Russian territory, although that country, just like China, has tried to
avoid such an outcome as far as the strengths and possibilities of
each one allow.

The economy of the superpower will collapse like a house of cards.

The society of the United States is one which is the least prepared to
endure a disaster like the one created by the empire in the very
territory from where it set out.

We do not know what might be the environmental effects of the

nuclear weapons that will inevitably explode in various parts of our
planet, something which, in the less grave variant, is going to happen
in profusion.

To venture any hypothesis would be pure science fiction on my part.

 Fidel Castro Ruz
June 27, 2010
2:15 p.m.

Translated by Granma International

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