[ppi] [ppiindia] President Fidel Castro reiterates his demand to Forbes magazine

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President Fidel Castro reiterates his demand to Forbes magazine
. Silence will not stop our accusations .  We will continue to demolish their 
lies

LIES were demolished again during a special presentation on Wednesday, May 24, 
when President Fidel Castro affirmed that the Bush administration was left with 
a "no hit, no run" after failing to provide any answer or defense against the 
irrefutable truths of the Cuban Revolution. 

For six hours, Fidel and several guests revealed the maneuver used by Forbes 
magazine in its attempt to smear Cuba's prestige, at a time when the country is 
attaining new victories and extending its help and potential to other peoples 
of the world. 

"I know this people, its state of mind during each one of our battles, and it 
has never been this elevated; that is the result of the Revolution's work," 
affirmed the Cuban president, explaining why it was important to expose 
Washington's conspiracy, via which Forbes claimed that Fidel had a fortune of 
$900 million. 

"We must continue demolishing their lies. It is an ideological battle; all of 
this is the Battle of Ideas. They don't have anything, they don't have one 
word. They have no defense," he emphasized. 

Fidel explained that the special presentation was aimed primarily at 
international public opinion, because the Cuban people do not allow themselves 
to be deceived or manipulated, given that their awareness has multiplied. "That 
is a people that defends its Revolution, that understands lies and rejects 
them," he noted. 

Referring to his previous appearance, during which he urged the Bush 
administration and its intelligence agencies to prove their disgraceful claims, 
Fidel commented, "They are remaining silent." 

"Bush is staying quiet, just like the State Department, Congress and the CIA. 
The only one defending (the lie) is El Nuevo Herald, the libelous newspaper of 
the terrorist mafia in Miami. Look at how weak and rickety the Bush 
administration is; it hasn't been able to say one word."

"That was how it was when we demanded that they say where Posada Carriles 
illegally entered (the country); they stayed absolutely silent then, too," he 
added. 

ALL OF THE COUNTRY'S INCOME IS FOR THE REVOLUTION

Fidel emphasized that all of the country's income, whatever its source, is 
utilized to support the Revolution's development, in a country that is 
blockaded but has carried out education and healthcare for the entire people; 
that has trained the human capital via which it resisted the Special Period and 
the fall of the socialist bloc, particularly that of the USSR. 

"That is a fundamental reason that is not understood by those who advocated our 
end when we lost our markets and the U.S. blockade was intensified." 

The Cuban president noted that at that time, there were almost 30,000 students 
in the medical schools, almost all of whom graduated. Today, the country is 
educating 40,000 computer programmers, as well as thousands of other experts in 
services that the country is providing to other nations, and charting a new 
economic course. 

He affirmed that the income from tourism, from the hard-currency stores and 
from thousands of other enterprises during all of these years has been used to 
buy fuel, food and other necessary items to first be able to resist and then to 
advance toward new heights of development. 

The banking system is now administrating what was previously done by 3,000 
entities that operated in hard currency. It receives, credits, and approves all 
investments, Fidel explained. Here, spending is accounted for, and with 
increasing discipline. 

BUCKETS OVER THEIR HEADS

Fidel commented that Forbes and El Nuevo Herald should put buckets over their 
heads to cover up the discredit of their spurious arguments. With respect to 
the Miami newspaper, he commented on one article in it that refers to him as a 
murderer, terrorist and person guilty of acts of genocide. 

"Let them find one war in the history of humanity, in the history of 
revolutions, where there was an army like our Rebel Army, which took thousands 
of prisoners without a blow; and during Girón (the Bay of Pigs invasion) it was 
the same: not one blow, we did not hit a single mercenary with the butt of a 
rifle." 

"Yes, we have punished in an exemplary way those who tortured and murdered the 
people. We promised justice, and justice was done, and the maximum sentence was 
given to those criminals, in accordance with the law, carried out by a country 
that did not have death squads, that even suspended the death penalty, 
subjected to a dirty war that killed thousands of its citizens," Fidel 
affirmed. 

He said that the criminals and those guilty of genocide are those who imposed 
the Torricelli and Helms-Burton laws on the Cuban people, those who paid Posada 
Carriles for his criminal actions and have not stopped carrying out 
assassination attempts during all these years of the Revolution. 

"We knew they had prepared the assassination attempt in Panama, and we revealed 
it there, because we could not violate the sovereignty of that country by 
capturing him or eliminating him. We never would have done that. But yes, we 
have helped the Angolans, the Namibians and many other peoples; we have 
combated apartheid and contributed to other revolutionary causes, some of which 
took power." 

THEY CANNOT DO WHAT CUBA DOES

"We know down to the cent what the Henry Reeve Contingent has cost in Pakistan: 
every flight, every hospital. I never would have spoken if the president, 
foreign minister and prime minister had not spoken and asked for help from the 
world. For us, we were doing our duty, just like the 1,600 doctors we offered 
to the United States when (Hurricane) Katrina hit, or the hundreds we offered 
to Guatemala and Mexico after Stan," Fidel said.

"If we had not had the doctors, we could not have helped Pakistan with 
anesthesiologists, surgeons and intensive-care experts, and I maintain that the 
United States and Europe together could not do what Cuba has done, because 
their doctors are private property." 

In that sense, the Cuban president noted that Cuba is contributing to the 
training of doctors and other professionals from all over the world, and gave 
the example of the 1,600 Bolivians studying medicine in Holguín, or the 700 
Cuban doctors lending their services in Evo Morales' country, or who are 
turning their workplaces into universities in remote sites of Sub-Saharan 
Africa, where 700 million people have fewer doctors than does Cuba. 

In response to these realities, and because of the Revolution's broad prestige, 
the conspiracy was created via which Forbes is repeating its lies. And this is 
the right moment for a response, at a time when, moreover, the book by Ignacio 
Ramonet has come out and has had a big impact, Fidel commented. 

"Today, the empire's discredit is greater than ever; they wage wars in the name 
of democracy; they are liars, shameless." 

"We are facing the challenge of the most complicated world ever, when there are 
perils that are endangering the existence of the human species, with tens of 
thousands of nuclear weapons, and climactic changes associated with a 
disorganized world, in which a minority controls the wealth and dominates 
technology and scientific advances."

"Many of these ideas are in Ramonet's book, which does not contain a single lie 
or exaggeration," the Cuban president commented. "If that were not the case, we 
would be betraying our conscience." 

With respect to the Forbes calumny and his demands for a U.S. response, Fidel 
said that perhaps they thought that he would not answer them. "They should be 
more prudent, and be quiet, and be a little more careful, because we are living 
during exceptional times," he added. 

And he concluded: "That piece of garbage magazine should ask for an apology 
from world public opinion. I don't have an account in dollars in any Cuban 
bank, nor do I have a single dollar. We will continue demanding an answer from 
them, and we are sure that many in the world are going to speak out against 
these lies."

"Forbes should ask for an apology from the world for its lies and infamies," 
Fidel emphasized. 


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