Fidelismo
I wanted to put up some videos of Fidel Castro's Primero de Mayo 2003 speech that I attended, but I haven't been able to find a server to host them yet because the files are so huge. In the meantime, you can IM jijijij and go to Get File, there should be the three videos in there.
According to the Cuban government, 1 million people gathered in the Plaza de la Revolucion for the 10 AM speech (and preceeding speeches and other onstage events). We marched down from the University with the rest of the Havana college kids and arrived at around 4:15 AM - and it poured rain from about 6 AM - 8 AM, but we couldn't move. We were right up front, in the first few rows of people behind the dignitaries and press, snuggled in the midst of revolutionary students from all over Latin America. Imagine you and thousands of your closest companeros jumping up and down in the communist rain chanting socialist slogans in Spanish for 8 hours. There is only one word for that in English and that word is wickedawesome.
Patria o Muerte!
Venceremos!
ps: The speaker who preceeded Fidel was a Protestant priest invited from the United States. He spoke about the recent executions on charges of treason of a few Cubans who had hijacked a Havana commuter ferry (which I had rode several times before the incident) in hopes of making it to Miami - it ran out of gas halfway there. His speech condemned the Cuban government for their hasty action. Can you imagine a Cuban official being invited to speak before Bush at his State of the Union about the human rights violations in Guantanamo? The answer is no, no, you can't.
According to the Cuban government, 1 million people gathered in the Plaza de la Revolucion for the 10 AM speech (and preceeding speeches and other onstage events). We marched down from the University with the rest of the Havana college kids and arrived at around 4:15 AM - and it poured rain from about 6 AM - 8 AM, but we couldn't move. We were right up front, in the first few rows of people behind the dignitaries and press, snuggled in the midst of revolutionary students from all over Latin America. Imagine you and thousands of your closest companeros jumping up and down in the communist rain chanting socialist slogans in Spanish for 8 hours. There is only one word for that in English and that word is wickedawesome.
Patria o Muerte!
Venceremos!
ps: The speaker who preceeded Fidel was a Protestant priest invited from the United States. He spoke about the recent executions on charges of treason of a few Cubans who had hijacked a Havana commuter ferry (which I had rode several times before the incident) in hopes of making it to Miami - it ran out of gas halfway there. His speech condemned the Cuban government for their hasty action. Can you imagine a Cuban official being invited to speak before Bush at his State of the Union about the human rights violations in Guantanamo? The answer is no, no, you can't.
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