Fidel Castro Speaks to the Americas in English Part 1

50 Years of Revolution: Fidel Castro Speaks to the Americas in English

In May 2003, ex-Cuban president Fidel Castro was in Argentina to attend the inauguration of the new Argentinian president, Nestor Kirchner. Just two months earlier, the United States had plunged itself into a world of intellectual darkness by pre-emptively and illegally invading Iraq. Against this backdrop, Fidel Castro delivered a 2 1/2 hour speech on the steps of the law school to thousands of Argentinians, yet the footage has the feeling as if he was speaking to the entire continental mass that comprises the Americas.

In these videos, 44 minutes have been excerpted and provided with translation so that people from the English speaking world have the opportunity to form a better criteria by which to judge one of the most historically important Americans(in this sense, someone from either of the Americas) of the 20th and 21st century.

After 50 years of revolution, 47 years of an embargo, hundreds of assassination plots, one failed invasion, and unquantifiable lies and slander by the United States government and American media outlets, the world faces the prospect of a crumbling American empire and a Cuban revolution that will survive it in the context of an increasingly independent and socialist Latin America. The multi-polar world is a reality.

By 2003, the beginnings of change had begun to manifest themselves, as Fidel Castro explains towards the end of his speech. In these 44 minutes, he discusses the Bush doctrine, education, health, immigration, the Cuban electoral system, mass media and communication, and neoliberal globalization. He even touches upon "an international economic crisis."

This is part 1 of 2.

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[eddiemperor]

Where can i find the Entire Speech? Without the English Subtitiles? Thank you soo much for uploading this, this isso Inspirational.

[IceyPancho]

@eddiemperor Look up Fidel Castro en Argentina 2003. It should pop up. there's a couple of different versions of it, but their spliced up into 16-20 vids. One guy even provides a link where you can download the whole thing. It's 2.5 hours long.

[fshjshshhs]

The people claiming that Fidel is anti-imperialist are stupid. The primary currency in Cuba now is pegged to the US dollar. What this means is that fluctuations in the US economy have the same (if not greater) effects in Cuba. So guess what, the Cuban economy is now fully dependent on the success of the US economy. So much for self-determination.

[IceyPancho]

@fshjshshhs This is an example of why I made this video. Fidel discusses currency and economics. They use two currencies in Cuba. Listening to what he actually says or wrote about these topics will help someone develop a better informed perspective than only receiving or subjecting him or herself to ridiculous statements such as this one that imply that Cuba has somehow sacrificed its sovereignty over its currency.

[elektra1968]

Even when his time comes and Fidel dies.. He will be inmortal..!!!!

[Osazeone]

Castro and The Cuban People Stud Up "Had a Backbone" to stand against U.S. bullyismmm and Military. The People United will NEVER be Divided..

[GLOBALWISSENsCHANNEL]

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US has 1 0 0 0 military bases all over the world, and now a new in irak n afganistan.

a real military dictaturship

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[eddiemperor]

@IceyPancho Thank you Hermano!!

[leomend92]

@gameslammer666 you should actually be happy when that happens,he wins people over by using pretty words,but we in cuba have been in the same corrupted bullshit thanks to him,and thanks to the fact that i live in US im able to post a comment on the internet since that son of a bitch wont let us do so in cuba

[leomend92]

wow he is crazier than ever

[chaz3345]

i dont hear him speaking english

[gameslammer666]

Man, I'm going to be sad when Castro dies :(