Cuba: Nine years since Fidel Castro Ruz physical disappearance

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This November 25 marks the ninth anniversary of the physical disappearance of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, one of the greatest figures of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.  #teleSUREnglish #Cuba #FidelCastro #Anniversary

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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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