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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz , né le 13 août 1926 à Birán et mort le 25 novembre 2016 à La Havane, est un révolutionnaire et homme d'État cubain qui a gouverné la République de Cuba comme Premier ministre de 1959 à 1976 et ensuite comme président de 1976 à 2008.

Il est un des principaux dirigeants de la Révolution cubaine qui renversa le régime dictatorial du général Fulgencio Batista, successivement Premier ministre de l'île de février 1959 à décembre 1976, puis président du Conseil d’État de Cuba depuis la création de cette fonction et également président du Conseil des ministres , jusqu'à sa démission pour des raisons de santé en février 2008. Le 24 février 2008, l’Assemblée nationale a élu son frère Raúl Castro pour lui succéder comme chef de l'État. Ce dernier assume l'intérim du pouvoir depuis le 31 juillet 2006. Fidel Castro occupe la fonction de Premier secrétaire du Parti communiste de Cuba, de la création de celle-ci en 1965 jusqu'au 19 avril 2011, date à laquelle Raúl Castro lui succède à ce poste.

Son gouvernement est régulièrement dénoncé dans les médias occidentaux comme étant une dictature,,,,,. Plusieurs observateurs, think-tank et ONG comme Amnesty International ont critiqué des dérives autoritaires,,,,. Le journaliste cubain en exil Jacobo Machover parle même de « pouvoir absolu ».

Cette vision est contestée par ses partisans, : Castro jouissait d'une certaine popularité auprès d'hommes politiques et d'intellectuels en Amérique latine, en Afrique , en France et même aux États-Unis, où le révérend Jesse Jackson, ancien candidat à l'investiture du Parti démocrate pour l'élection présidentielle américaine, déclara en 1984 que Fidel Castro était « le politicien le plus honnête et le plus courageux qu'[il ait] jamais rencontré ».

Fidel Castro, son frère le lieutenant Raúl Castro, et le docteur Ernesto Guevara ont donné à la révolution, officiellement nationaliste au départ, une orientation « marxiste-léniniste » au début des années 1960, au moment de son affrontement avec les administrations américaines de l'époque. Le pays se rapprocha alors de l'Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques . À la suite de la révolution, le gouvernement cubain, sous l'impulsion de Castro, de son frère et de Che Guevara, instaura progressivement une république socialiste à parti unique.

Il est également député de Santiago depuis 1976, et Premier secrétaire du Parti communiste de Cuba depuis sa refondation en 1965. Réélu tous les cinq ans, Fidel Castro a été au pouvoir face à dix présidents des États-Unis .

✵ 13. août 1926 – 25. novembre 2016  •  Autres noms Castro, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, Ruz Fidel Alejandro Castro
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Fidel Castro citations célèbres

“La révolution est dans l’histoire ce qu’est le médecin à la naissance d’une vie nouvelle. Il n’emploie pas sans nécessité le forceps, mais il l’emploie sans hésiter chaque fois que cela est nécessaire pour aider l’enfantement. Cette naissance apporte aux masses asservies et exploitées l’espérance d’une vie meilleure”

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“Il est possible que des gens gavés de Sélection, de films yankees, de Life et de dépêches de l’U. P. I et de l’A. P. qui ont dit tant de mensonges, arrivent à croire que la politique des États-Unis est une politique correcte, noble et humanitaire comme ils essaient de le montrer.”

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Sur la formation du P.U.R.S.

“Personne ne réchappe du fanatisme. Nous avons la chance de ne pas être opposés à des fanatiques, mais à des gens animés par un esprit de calcul.”

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À propos des attentats contre lui.

“L’impérialisme sera vaincu, inévitablement. Qui nous a appris cette leçon? Ce sont les peuples qui nous l’ont apprise…”

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“Notre seul orgueil sera d'avoir peut-être été utiles.”

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espagnol, traduction sous-titrée du film

Fidel Castro: Citations en anglais

“They corrupt the morals of young girls and destroy posters of Che! What do they think? That this is a bourgeois liberal regime? NO! There is nothing liberal in us! We are collectivists! We are communists! There will be no Prague Spring here!”

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As quoted in Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him http://archive.li/OvPcZ (August 2008), by Humberto Fontova

“The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.”

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Interview with C. L. Sulzberger, The New York Times (November 7, 1964), p. 26.

“This epic before us is going to be written by the hungry Indian masses, the peasants without land, the exploited workers. It is going to be written by the progressive masses, the honest and brilliant intellectuals, who so greatly bound in our suffering Latin American lands. A struggle of masses and of ideas. AN epic that will be carried forward by our peoples, mistreated and and corned by imperialism; our peoples, unreckoned with until today, who are now beginning to shake off their slumber. Imperialism considered us a weak and submissive flock; and now it begins to be terrified of tat flock; a gigantic flock of 200 million Latin Americans in whom Yankee monopoly capitalism now sees its gravediggers.”

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The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)

“With what moral authority can they speak of human rights — the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this — the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings; an empire that supports reaction and counter-revolution all over the world; that protects and promotes the exploitation by monopolies of the wealth and the human resources of whole continents, unequal exchange, a protectionist policy, an incredible waste of natural resources, and a system of hunger for the world?”

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Speech on the 25th anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack (26 July 1978) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1978/esp/f260778e.html

“We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.”

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As quoted in With Fidel : A Portrait of Castro and Cuba (1976) by Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, p. 83
As quoted in Words of Wisdom : From the Greatest Minds of All Time (2004) edited by Mick Farren, p. 138
Variante: The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

“The capitalist system of production, once it had given all it was capable of giving, became an abysmal obstacle to the progress of humanity.”

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The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)

“If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.”

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Speech on the anniversary of the Granma landing (2 December 1961)

“We are speaking of life, because whenever we speak of universities, we speak of life.
What are you? If I were asked that question right now, I would have to say that you are life, you are symbols of life.”

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University of Havana address (2005)

“The anxiety felt today is an unmistakable symptom of rebellion. The very depths of a continent are profoundly moved, a continent that has witnessed four centuries of slave, semi-slave, and feudal exploitation beginning with its aboriginal inhabitants and slaves brought from Africa, up to the nuclei of nationalities that emerged later: white, black, mulatto, mestizo and Indian, who today are made brothers and sisters by scorn, humiliation and the Yankee yoke, and are brothers and sisters in their hope for a better tomorrow.”

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The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)

“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”

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Statement of 1991, during the fall of USSR. http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/castro/db/1991/19910604-1.html

“I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.”

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As quoted in "Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike" in The New York Times (October 23, 1992)

“Divisionism, a product of all kinds of prejudices, false ideas and lies; sectarianism, dogmatism, a lack of breadth in analyzing the role of each social layer, its parties, organization and leaders - these obstruct the necessary united actions of the democratic and progressive forces of our people.”

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The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)

“You know my eyes are not very strong. So every day to make them stronger I force myself to look at the sun. I find it very hard. But do you know what I find harder? That is to look into the blue of your eyes.”

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Early in 1976, speaking to Margaret Trudeau, according to page 317 of Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 https://books.google.ca/books?id=ACC_G_kiR4cC&pg=PA317&lpg=PA317 by John English.

“This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.”

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Speech at the First World Congress on Literacy (2 February 2005) paraphrasing a line in John Milton's Paradise Lost; quoted in Granma

“I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.”

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I Won't Be a Dictator, interview with Ruth Lloyd (January 1959), printed in The Spokesman-Review (24 May 1959)

“And to the Black? What "alliance" can the system of lynching and brutal exclusion of the Black offer to the fifteen million Negroes and fourteen million mulattoes of Latin America, who know with horror and rage that their brothers in the North cannot ride in the same vehicles as their white compatriots, nor attend the same schools, nor even die in the same hospitals?”

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The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)

“I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.”

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On Jesus Christ, as quoted in Fidel and Religion (1985) by Frei Betto

“I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.”

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Resignation announcement (17 July 1959)

“The 26th of July Movement is the revolutionary organization of the humble, by the humble, for the humble. The 26th July Movement is the hope of redemption for the Cuban working class, who can hope for nothing from the political cliques; it is the hope of land for the peasants who live like pariahs in the country whose freedom their grandfathers won; it is the hope of going back home for the emigres who had to leave their country, here they could not live or work, and it is the hope of daily bread for the hungry and of justice for the forgotten.”

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Statement, Mexico, March 18th, 1956 as published in Carlos Franqui's Diary of the Cuban Revolution (1976), pp. 100-101.

“I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of 70 of my companeros. Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.”

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ibid, p. 105
History Will Absolve Me (October 16th, 1953)

“I now come to the close of my defense, but I will not end it as lawyers usually do, asking that the accused be freed. I cannot ask for freedom for myself while my companeros are already suffering in the ignominious prison of the Isle of Pines. Send me there to join them and to share their fate. It is understandable that honest people should be dead or in prison in a republic where the president is a criminal and a thief.”

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ibid, p. 104
History Will Absolve Me (October 16th, 1953)

“I sincerely believe revolution to be the source of legal right; but the nocturnal armed assault of March 10 could never be considered a revolution.”

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ibid, p 92
History Will Absolve Me (October 16th, 1953)

“Poor country! One morning the citizens woke up dismayed; under the cover of darkness, while the people slept, the ghost of the past had conspired and had seized the citizenry by its hands, its feet, and its neck.”

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That grip, those claws were familiar: those jaws, those death-dealing scythes, those boots. No, it was no nightmare; it was a sad and terrible reality: A man named Fulgencio Batista had just perpetrated the appalling crime that no one had expected.
ibid, p. 90
History Will Absolve Me (October 16th, 1953)

“Let me tell you a story: Once there was a republic. It had its constitution, its laws, its freedoms, a president, a congress and courts of law. Everyone could assemble, associate, speak and write with complete freedom.”

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ibid., p. 89-901
History Will Absolve Me (October 16th, 1953)

“It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there can be no offense.”

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Ibid. p. 53
History Will Absolve Me (October 16th, 1953)

“Capitalism is a system based on blind, destructive and tyrannical laws imposed on the human species.”

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Writings (10 November 2007) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2007/esp/f101107e.html

“Ho Chi Minh was, is and will be an eternal example.”

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Speech (6 March 2003) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2003/esp/f060303e.html

“We cannot ignore Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with the useless use of nuclear weapons, an absolutely unnecessary use that, in any case, could have been employed against some military facilities that fell, however, on civilian populations of hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, to establish the era of the atomic terror in the world.”

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Speech (25 November 1994) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1994/esp/f251194e.html

“The economic management and planning system was not set up so that we can play at capitalism; and some people are shamefully playing at capitalism; we know this, we see it, and thismust be set right.”

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Rectifying the Errors of the Cuban Revolution (1986)

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