00:00Welcome back.
00:02This November 25th marks the nice anniversary of the physical disappearance of the historical
00:07leader of the Q&A revolution, Fidel Castro Cruz, one of the greatest figures of the 20th
00:12century and the beginning of the 21st century.
00:19It was his wish that no school, hospital or public work be named after him, nor he did
00:26want monuments in his honor, he did not want his figure to become an object of worship.
00:31This is how the island looked and felt in the first days after his death.
00:37Very bad, my neighbor called me Idalmis, Fidel died, I couldn't believe it, I've been crying
00:46and crying, I can't sleep, I'm on pills, today I had to send for medication, but I
00:51feel terrible because we were born with this revolution.
00:59Those who knew him said that he was not afraid of criticism, nor he was dogmatic, he felt most
01:05comfortable among the people.
01:08The part of Fidel that we need to rescue for upcoming battles, in my opinion, is not his
01:17candor, his humanism, his sensitivity towards people.
01:24All of that is important, but that is not where we should be placing our emphasis because
01:30the context that is approaching is much more complicated, the disputes are much more complex.
01:35It seems to me that the Fidel most needed for the times we are living in Cuba and in Latin
01:40America is the most subversive, most radical Fidel.
01:45He once said that the revolution would be a difficult and dangerous undertaking.
01:49However, those who were close to him assured us that he never knew of fear.
01:54Nine years after his death, this is how he lives on in the imagination of Cuban children.
02:00His personality, his culture, he is cultured, he is good, kind.
02:05We just speak of Fidel in the present tense, as if he were still alive.
02:08Why?
02:09Because even though he is dead, to us he never died.
02:14Even if you don't believe it, Fidel is always by our side teaching us, and we are always
02:18learning things about him, even though he is no longer alive, but he is morally in the
02:22hearts of all children.
02:26In December 2011, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the person who was most
02:35attempted to be assassinated.
02:38From 1959 to 2000, 638 times, he challenged no less than 10 US presidents.
02:48They say he was strategist like few others in the history of humanity, hated by some and
02:54venerated by others.
02:57What many agree on is that he was an irremediable dreamer who was definitely victorious.
03:10If you are a child here, you're to be a child in the past I can also see the future of his
03:1519th century.
03:16I think you are all right.
03:17And that's why, I know it's a very good one.
03:19I know it is, I know it's all right, but you're all right.
03:20But things should not take care of right now.
03:22And that's why it means harm.
03:25You're all right.
03:26You're right.
03:28You're right.
03:29I know it will be a child.
03:30I know it will be a child.
03:33I know it will be a child.
03:34You're right.
03:34I know it will be a child.
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