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US, Spain have learnt nothing about Cuba’s resistance – Fidel

US, Spain have learnt nothing about Cuba’s resistance – Fidel
Written by Larry Moonze in Havana, Cuba
Saturday, March 28, 2009 5:46:11 AM

FORMER Cuban president Fidel Castro has said the United States and Spain have learnt nothing about the heroic resistance of Cuba.

In his essay Lies at the service of the empire in the Cuban online forum Cubadebate dated March 25, Fidel also explained that recent restructuring of the Council of Ministers of the Government of Cuba was a matter of purely legal procedures.

He stated that President Raul Castro had nothing to do with any dismissals.

Fidel was reacting to cable stories stating that former Council of Ministers vice-presidents Pedro Miret and Osmany Cienfuegos are two historical figures who have been dismissed from their posts by President Raul.

He described two news agencies, Reuters and EFE (Spanish), as two of the Western news agencies closest to the United States' imperialist policy.

Fidel said the latter behaved more poorly even though it was much less important than the former.

"Pedro Miret is a magnificent comrade, having great historical merits and whom we all respect and for whom I have a lot of affection," he stated.

Fidel explained that for several years now, for reasons of health, Miret was unable to occupy any post.

"The slow progress of his illness led to the gradual cessation of his political activities," he stated. "It is not fair to describe him as having been "fired", without any consideration whatsoever."

Fidel then stated that Osmany Cienfuegos, the brother of Camilo, carried out important tasks not only as Vice-President of the Council of Ministers but also as party member.

He stated that Cienfuegos also fulfilled his [Fidel's] instructions while he was Commander-in-Chief.

"He has always been, and still is, a revolutionary," Fidel stated. "His functions were gradually ceasing from a time much earlier than that of my illness. He no longer held the post of Vice-President of the Council of Ministers. Comrade Raul Castro, President of the Council of State, has absolutely no responsibility for any of this. In both cases, it was a matter of purely legal procedures."

Fidel noted that European Union Centre director Joaquin Roy in Miami said Spain had been rediscovered as a key country in certain regions of the world that were of interest to the United States such as Latin America highlighting Cuba and Venezuela.

Roy told EFE that the United States' major interest more than pressuring for an opening and changes was the stability on the Island.

Fidel said it could not be more crystal clear that "the ideas of the old Spanish empire on crutches, trying to assist the corrupt, tottering and genocidal Yankee Empire [USA]."

"Nothing has been learned by the United States superpower and the Spanish mini-power about the heroic resistance of Cuba," stated Fidel.

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