Fidel Castro: 90 years of liberation struggle

The contribution he has made to the world socialist movement, to the Third World liberation struggle and to social justice has been monumental, especially when one considers that he has been the leader of a tiny country with roughly the same population as New York City. At the current time, the Colombian government and leftist FARC guerillas are engaged in a peace process in Havana, and are very near to reaching a final peace accord, in large part due to Comrade Fidel Castro’s efforts.

As Nelson Mandela himself has acknowledged, South Africa is free from apartheid in no small measure due to Comrade Fidel’s leadership in militarily aiding the liberation struggles in Southern Africa, especially in Angola and Namibia, against the South African military which was then being supported by the United States. In addition, The Latin American Medical School (ELAM) in Cuba, which trains doctors from all around the world, but particularly from poor countries, was Comrade Fidel’s brainchild.