🇨🇺🌍 Che Guevara’s legacy: Cuba’s efforts went beyond mere rhetoric, actively supporting African liberation struggles, says a historian
🗣 “The Cuban Revolution was a powerful example that surprised many at the time because they had just made a revolution 90 miles away from imperialism, from the United States,” Professor Frank Josué Solar Cabrales, of the Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba, told Sputnik Africa in an interview. “That became an example that multiplied first of all in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia, in various places around the world.”
Today, November 21, marks the day Ernesto “Che” Guevara left the DR Congo in 1965 after nearly seven months of training and leading a group of Congolese guerrilla fighters and establishing vital communications links between Cuba and liberation movements in Southern Africa.
“There is even a very beautiful phrase of Fidel in a speech of the first years of the Revolution where Fidel says that ‘we do not want to build a paradise on the slopes of a volcano’, in other words, we are not only interested in social justice, in the freedom of Cubans, but in fighting for the freedom of all peoples, starting with Latin America, but also for our brothers, for our brother peoples of Africa, of Asia,” Prof. Cabrales explained.
The academician further explained that while the process of decolonization of Africa had begun in the 1950s, the Cuban Revolution (1952-1959) and its figures provided a significant impetus. He argued that the influence of the revolution went beyond political independence, advocating a complete break with economic, social, and cultural ties to former colonizers.
🗣 “Then, throughout the following decades, Cuba, its support will not be limited only to this armed support, but Cuba, and I repeat, will be vital in the independence of Angola, of Namibia, of several of these colonies, which in turn will also influence revolutionary processes in Europe, as in Portugal, the Carnation Revolution,” Prof. Cabrales stated.
The professor added, “Che and Fidel, more than to the past, belong above all to the future […] The values that they embody, are ideas that are more valid today than ever […] because our peoples still have to continue fighting for their true and definitive independence, for their true and definitive social justice.”
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