Word: fidel
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...After the campaign we had a big rally where Fidel spoke to everyone who had participated. Fidel told us we should keep on studying, and proposed to us a scholarship plan. This became the general study and scholarship plan for everyone, but we were the first to implement...
...stage was the one of actually building socialism, of developing the technology, the economic base, and the organization of work necessary for Cuba to fight its way out of underdevelopment. That fight is still going on. Batista had been defeated. Now, as Fidel said, "Our enemy is underdevelopment...
...automatically, Pedro says, "I always supported the Revolutionary laws as they were created, and my father taught me to understand them, so there was nothing complicated about becoming a socialist." He also saw that the bourgeoisie and the American corporations did not support the laws which diminished their profits. Fidel came to Pedro's school and his workplace to discuss the Revolution. "He is always going around and holding conversations just like he did here at the camp...
...Fidel describes the political process in Cuba as "simultaneous construction of socialism and communism." The new ways of acting and reading-what Ch? labeled "the new man" -must be built simultaneously with the new technology and economic structures. Otherwise, in Cuba, neither will succeed. The aim, according to Fidel, is "to create wealth through social awareness and not the other way around...
...brigade had never known each other before-the separate paths of their lives had gone through similar territory, but had not crossed. What brought them together to do voluntary work in the harvest of 1970. "The Year of the Ten Millions," is precisely that social awareness that Fidel speaks about...