Fidel Castro’s Ideas Are a Banner for Struggle at ALBA-TCP Summit

Speaking to Prensa Latina during the 16th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas-Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), Quintana highlighted the significance of the independentist, Latin Americanist and anti-imperialist ideas of the revolutionary leader.

Fidel said that while there is no full emancipation of human beings, no government, leader or people can rest, the former Minister of the Presidency of the Plurinational State of Bolivia recalled.

According to the diplomat, the Cuban leader’s legacy is present at the Summit, since he was one of the ALBA supporters as an integration mechanism to contribute to Latin American and Caribbean unity.

Fidel’s brilliance led him to think and foster a great project such as the ALBA and to fight to realize the dream of turning homelands into humanity, as stated by the Cuban apostle, Jose Marti, he emphasized.

Quintana added that the Cuban leader’s thinking ‘will continue as long as external factors and imperial powers intervene in our peoples and limit their rights, plunder their natural resources, destabilize progressive projects, blockade nations and install their extraterritorial military bases’.

The ALBA is a dream that is being realized, and our task, as Bolivian President Evo Morales said, is to keep that legacy alive but working for it, he added.

The 16th ALBA-TCP Summit reveres the ideas of Fidel Castro and the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez, and brings together the leaders of the regional bloc, founded on December 14, 2004.