Editorial: 99 years of The Caguairán

This editorial was published on our website two years ago on the occasion of Fidel's birthday, but due to its relevance and with some updates, we are offering it to you again.

Today, August 13th, is Fidel's birthday, in the present tense, as his influence remains latent in every action of Cuban daily life, even more so in these difficult times, where the optimism that characterized him and instilled in us fuels the will to resist the aggression of the empire.

In Fidel, the word "impossible" found its antonym, for he demonstrated, and continues to do so through his wise course, that with intelligence, tenacity, and, above all, unity, it is possible to achieve what for many may seem utopia.

There were those who called Fidel a naive dreamer, those who threatened him, and those who attempted to assassinate him on more than 600 occasions; but he remained firm like Caguairán in the unstoppable march of the Revolution, the most just and humanitarian project ever known in the Western Hemisphere.

The certainty in the success of the reasons that sustain the work of the majority of the Cuban people in building a society adjusted to their own requirements, find in the teachings of Fidel a solid support, to apply today intelligent variants appropriate to each moment.

This is, ultimately, an extension of the Moncada program proposed by Fidel in 1953, with its perennial capacity for adaptation that allows our battered economy to survive despite the onslaught, with firm foundations of certainty, to celebrate, in the present, this new Fidel's birthday.

There is no doubt that Camagüey has earned the merit of always being in Fidel, where for the first time, with its Commander in Chief at the forefront, a march of the combatant people was held to avert the betrayal of the nascent Cuban Revolution.

These are difficult times; the current circumstances force us to turn, once again, to the teachings left by Fidel, who demonstrated that the word surrender does not exist for Cubans.

We owe to Fidel the infinite capacity of resistance that encourages us to go forward and that we are more, the convinced ones, that fully assists us the reason to continue in the fight, sure of the victory.

Thank you, Fidel, for celebrating your birthday with us and for us on August 13th, and for your eternal presence, more relevant than ever, encouraged by your imprint.

We enter the day of Fidel's centennial, which will become a new stage of struggle to uphold his work, and may his teachings serve as a source of action, in which unity and faith in victory will be constants of the strategy to be followed.