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DEMONSTRATIONS IN SUPPORT OF FIDEL,
RAUL AND THE PARTY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
We will rise to the stature of this
young man of 80
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.
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