Posted on 08/03/2006 12:33:00 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
UNANIMOUSLY and firmly workers from the National Assembly of People’s Power backed the President Fidel Castro’s Proclamation to the Cuban people. “We are rising up to meet the stature of this young man of 80 years who, convalescing from a complicated operation, still made the effort to adopt measures to assure that we are capable of confronting any aggression,” affirmed Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, president of the Assembly.
Alarcón commented that on July 31 he was with Fidel, who transmitted “his confidence and certainty that all of us united will be capable of fulfilling the tasks of today and those that the future will be asking of us.”
“Up until the last moment – and we are nowhere near or resembling the last moment,” he affirmed, Fidel Castro will be fighting alongside the Cuban people; "We have to be capable of standing up, rising up, trying to reach his stature.”
All the decent people of the world have received additional evidence (if it was lacking) of the virtues, merits and altruism of Fidel Castro, added Alarcón, "and there is a sentiment of tribute, of homage to that perennial fighter, who is still struggling, who has written in his own hand a proclamation in which he addressed every last detail, so that while he recovers, the Revolution will continue."
“THE COMANDANTE ALWAYS TELLS US THE TRUTH”
A large crowd is gathered by the Ciénaga railroad workshops in the central municipality of Plaza de la Revolución, who are from different enterprises and establishments in the vicinity. They are there, as is happening in innumerable places in Cuba, to inform the president that "his orders will be carried out;" that "every one of us learned to live within the Revolution, and that privilege we will never renounce."
Meanwhile Eliseo Montesino Morales, an experienced mechanic and head of the brigade, read out Fidel’s Proclamation published on the front page of Granma, there was absolute silence. Later workers like Clara Castañeda García confessed to have again felt "goose bumps" all over her body, “because the news was heavy."
For Edilberto Ferrer, a former sailor and current crane operator, “we have called this meeting so that the Comandante knows of the will of all of us to fulfill our tasks and not fall behind on anything, because in the country there will never be any ‘transition’ to capitalism."
In Eliseo’s opinion, the proclamation “is another beautiful gesture of confidence in the people: Fidel always tells us the truth."
“THE REVOLUTION WILL NEVER BE ABANDONED”
Doctors, nurses, patients and builders at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital in Havana gathered in the lobby of that center to show their support for the Proclamation of President Fidel Castro Ruz.
“We have confidence in the leader of the Revolution’s speedy recovery and the conviction that we will maintain the achievements of the Cuban public health system,” affirmed Dr. Mario Antonio Enamorado, director of the hospital, on behalf of all the workers.
Luz Marina Miquet, representing Party militants of that center, declared that the Cuban people will support Fidel and Raúl. "The Revolution will never be abandoned; those who delude themselves that its continuation is not guaranteed are naïve," she assured.
“IN EVERY POSITION THERE WILL BE A COMANDANTE EN JEFE”
For a few minutes the Antillana de Acero steelyard was deserted. Then the workers gathered outside to shout, in the voice of one of their outstanding workers Ezequiel Velázquez, that every workplace of this industry will have a Comandante en Jefe.”
“The Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis were difficult times and we were united, the Special Period and the U.S. blockade have created difficult times and we have remained united,” Ezequiel recalled.
They grouped together, with their arms raised, reaffirming that even when raw materials are scarce they will not give up the target of 100,000 tons of steel that must be reached this year, the metal workers will continue with a strong character. As Luis Medina: imperialism will not find weaknesses.
CONTINUE FORTIFYING UNITY
SANTIAGO DE CUBA.— To mobilize when necessary, to increase revolutionary vigilance and resolutely support everything expressed in the president’s Proclamation: these were the accords of the workers at the Hermanos Díaz oil refinery in this city who met in shifts and by departments, plus the decision to continue fortifying unity around the Party, Fidel, Raúl and the government, in defense of socialism and in the face of any enemy aggression.
The 500-plus members of this collective called for increased efficiency in order to supply the assigned volume of the processed product to the economy. This industry, strongly hit by the imperialist blockade from the very beginning, was the object of a pirate machine-gun attack in March 1961 that severely damaged its installations and killed a combatant.
Similar demonstrations of support took place in all provinces of the country. For example, in one tobacco company in Pinar del Río, Josefa Acosta, a Heroine of Work of the Republic of Cuba, exclaimed: “The enemy and its imperialist masters should know that now, more than ever, we are committed to doing everything well, while we await out the rapid reestablishment of our leader and guide.”
In the Héroes del Baire Hospital, in the special municipality of the Isle of Youth, one of its workers, Aníbal González, underscored in a combative speech: “We will not provide an opening for the criminal plans of the enemy nor stop increasing the quality of the programs directed by Fidel,”
“We cannot forget that the Party leads the Revolution; we are firm and dedicated to the defense of what we have achieved with Fidel and Raúl at the helm,” said Míriam García, on behalf of the workers of CONFORMAT, in Matanzas province.
“In each one of us there is and will be a soldier of Fidel,” emphasized Dámaso Rodríguez, a machine operator in Santa Clara.
He's really really very alive. Really. We kid you not. Fidel's alive. Yep, it's official. Alive and kicking. We wouldn't lie about a thing like that. No sirree. Count on it. Did I mention he's alive? Uh-huh, you bet.
It reads like a eulogy. I guess it's official, then... He's dead.
D@mn these progressives are sick.
It takes a lot of work to sound more insane than Admadinejad, Chavez or Gore, but this unknown machinist from Cuba has what it takes.
Language ... one of the first casualties of dictatorship.
I hear Lenin is going to be vacating his glass coffin.
and Bobby Ewing was just dreaming......
And he is a machinist, of course. He's not a Communist Party functionary who's never worked a day in his life or anything.
“We have confidence in the leader of the Revolution’s speedy recovery and the conviction that we will maintain the achievements of the Cuban public health system,” affirmed Dr. Mario Antonio ("Baghdad Bob") Enamorado, director of the hospital, on behalf of all the workers.
"... Uh, that is, I don't mean to suggest that there is or ever will be a last moment. Like, if, in some science fictiony hypothetical fantasy universe, there were a so-called last moment, I wish to be perfectly clear that we would not be remotely near it, and stuff."
Thats all commie-talk.... for he dead.
Interesting psychology - still obsessing on events decades past.
Sums up liberalism - jealousy of individualism, capitalism, and success.
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