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23/04/1961He delivers a speech, in Havana, about the mercenary invasion, as part of the program of the Popular University.
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22/04/1970He delivers a speech during the solemn evening for the centenary of Vladimir I. Lenin’s birth. Havana
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24/04/1959
- Fidel starts the trading day at the Sugar Stock Market and at the Café in New York City.
- He visits the Bronx Zoo in New York.
- He makes a speech at a huge demonstration held in Central Park, New York City, where he declares that “Cuba has become the hope of the Americas”. “Ideas cannot be killed with guns.”
- Fidel has an interview with Roberto Maduro, of the baseball team the Cuban Sugar Kings, at the Statler Hotel where he is staying.
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Fidel Castro.- Very well, and now, I will ask for your patience. This document might be of interest, if you will give me the floor.
I felt it would be worth devoting a few minutes to this matter.
I have always lived and will continue to live in peace, for the rest of my life, because I know how to defend with dignity the rights of my people and the honor of small, poor or weak nations, and I have always been inspired by a profound sense...