[NYTr] Fidel Castro: The Ideological Waterloo - Nov 15, 2007

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Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) - Nov 16, 2007
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Reflections by the Commander in Chief

The Ideological Waterloo

by Fidel Castro Ruz

I have been working on the many reflections that I have promised.
One of them deals with the main ideas of a book by Greenspan, former 
chairman of the Federal Reserve, making use of his own words. His book 
clearly reveals how imperialism seeks to continue buying up the world?s 
natural and human resources with perfumed paper bills.

Another idea I had consisted in compelling certain individuals to
confess the truth about NATO?s war plans. I directly challenged Mr. 
Aznar and brought pressures to bear on US leaders to have them openly 
admit their responsibility in the empire's wars. Some of the documented 
evidence I presented had not been published before.

Then the Ibero-American Summit was held and hell broke loose there,
Zapatero's cowardly and untimely remarks, his defense of Aznar, the 
King of Spain's abrupt interjection, and the dignified response of the 
President of Venezuela who, because of technical problems, was unable 
to hear precisely what the King had said, were an unambiguous display 
of the genocidal ways and methods of the empire, its accomplices and
the anesthetized victims of the Third World.

Chávez's talents and debate skills came to the fore in this tense
atmosphere.

Aznar's twisted soul is best captured by one of his pronouncements. 
When Chávez asked him what fate was in store, in the neoliberal world, 
for poor countries such as Haiti, he replied, verbatim: "Those guys are 
screwed."

I know the Bolivarian leader well: he never forgets the words he hears 
in direct conversation with others.

I wrote a third reflection on the Ibero-American Summit which I have 
yet to publish. I am publishing this one, instead, on the eve of 
President Chávez's trip to Riadh, Saudi Arabia, tomorrow, where he will 
participate in the OPEC Summit.

Havana, November 15, 2007 6:32 pm