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Monument to truth, honesty and ethics
BY PEDRO DE LA HOZ — Granma daily
staff writer —
A monument to truth, honesty and
ethics — qualities consistent with the trajectory
and ideas of the leader of the Revolution — was the
description given to the book Cien horas con
Fidel, which, in its second edition, revised and
enriched with new information, was launched on
Wednesday, October 4 in the International Conference
Center, in the presence of French journalist and
essayist Ignacio Ramonet, the interlocutor of this
valuable set of conversations.
For those who attended the launch
of the first edition on May 16, where the Cuban
president said he needed to make a critical and
exhaustive revision of the text for a new
publication, its rapid completion, with such high
demands, once again demonstrated the value that
Fidel places on his word, his tenacity and rigor in
work, and the importance of transmitting experiences
and ideas for the combats of today and the future.
Ramonet was impressed not only by
how Fidel threw himself into the task between May
and July, in the midst of all kinds of work, but
also the commitment and dedication with which he
continued to face that commitment during his
convalescence after his health problems.
Abel Prieto, member of the
Political Bureau and minister of culture, contrasted
the value of Fidel’s words with the predomination of
degradation and mediocrity in the politics of
today’s world, and emphasized the consistency to
principles and moral coherence of his thought and
action.
One of the book’s new features,
noted editor Pedro Alvarez Tabío, is the inclusion
of correspondence between Fidel and Soviet leader
Nikita Krushchev during the October (missile)
Crisis, the expansion of the section on the
frustrated coup d’état against Hugo Chávez in April
2002 and the paragraphs dedicated to Fidel’s mother,
Lina Ruz, which he qualified as a moving family
portrait.
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