[NYTr] Fidel: The Revolution Has Already Been Planted in Latin America

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Fidel Castro: The Revolution Has Already Been Planted in Latin America

Havana, Oct 14 (acn) Cuban President Fidel Castro said that the
Revolution that inspired Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara has been
planted in Latin America and that there are favourable conditions for
it to break out. In a 17-minute video run Sunday during the "Alo
Presidente" TV show, broadcast from the central Cuban city of Santa
Clara, Fidel Castro stressed that consciousness is the most important
weapon for that revolutionary struggle. The video reproduced a segment
of a four-hour talk held Saturday in Havana between Hugo Chavez and the
Cuban Revolution leader. Che Guevara was a planter of ideas, said Fidel
Castro during the TV show, the second one that Hugo Chavez hosts from
Cuba. Fidel said that the world is experiencing many Vietnams, as Che
Guevara once stressed.

During the video, Fidel Castro recalled that shortly after the triumph
of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Venezuela was witnessing the
appearance of revolutionary conditions and he said that at that moment
he though that some day Venezuela, the homeland of Simon Bolivar, would
play its role in this continent.

"That revolution is already here, you are here Fidel, we have this
revolution in Bolivia, in Ecuador as well," replied the Venezuelan
President, who described Fidel Castro as the father of all
revolutionaries in this continent.

"You will never die, you will always be with us in Latin America" said
Hugo Chavez and presented Fidel with a copy of a painting he made while
in prison back in 1992, which depicts the scene he could see from his 
prison cell.

Following the running of the video, President Fidel Castro made a call
to the TV show hosted by Hugo Chavez and both leaders shared a long
conversation during the program dedicated to Cuban Argentinean guerrilla
fighter Ernesto Che Guevara.

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