“Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me”. These powerful words by Fidel still shake history, because trenches of ideas were more energetic than trenches of stones.
With this robust phrase, Moncada taught us to turn setbacks into victory, it taught us that the language of truth must be, no doubt, simple, without artifice.
That accuracy, marked by the time, shuddered the small room of the “Saturnino Lora” Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, an enduring symbol of the revolutionary voice of the giant man of Cuba.
That truth, in Fidel’s heart and full of courage to say it, denounced the crude reality of an Island, run over by the republican government.
“History will absolve me” was the expressed document, the political and action program of national, democratic and popular liberation that summoned the unity of the oppressed people.
It was the plea of defense that marked the itinerary, that challenged to put an immediate end to the corrupted capitalist foundations, to establish the future of a people.
The problems of land, industrialization, housing, unemployment, education and health were the six most pressing issues of the Cuban neo-colony that had to be solved through the conquest of freedom and socialist democracy.
After the victorious January, Fidel fulfilled his promises, assuring work, housing, advancing in industrialization, giving land to the peasants, assuring free education and health.
“History will absolve me” today continues to mark the path of freedom and sovereignty traced at that time, it continues to be a political compass to not deviate the course, to make us see that almost 71 years after having been exposed by Fidel, it maintains the same halo of social justice.
It confirms that despite the current adversities and the unjust and cruel blockade, reason is on our side, and in the end, as then, history will absolve us.
