Idea trenches were more powerful than stone trenches; because the Moncada taught us to turn setbacks into victories.
A truth was shaking the small room of the “Saturnino Lora” hospital in Santiago de Cuba, an icon of the voice of the Revolution.
There was the leader of the revolutionary movement, protagonist of the patriotic actions of the memorable July 26th.
There was the crude and courageous denunciation of the crimes and outrages of the republican period.
With crystal clarity; Fidel exposed the political and action program, a program of national, democratic and popular liberation that united all the oppressed people.
Ideas standing for progress
It was “History will absolve me” the defense plea that marked the immediate goals of the revolutionary struggle and the seeds of the anti-feudal, anti-bourgeois, anti-imperialist and socialist path.
That plea, more than an oratorical piece of self-defense, represented the expression of national interest. His fiery text more than confirmed the real force of José Martí’s thought: “A just principle from the bottom of a cave can do more than an army”.
“Condemn me, it doesn’t matter, history will absolve me” is the phrase that runs through latitudes showing us the value of a doctrine; the strength of ideas; the lesson of justice.
Sixty-nine years after that historic plea that brought stars and doves for the homeland, Cuba does not forget the cause of the time, still rooting the formula of Martí’s triumphant love: “With all and for the sake of all”.
