Dear Friends:
children and adolescents today, men and women of tomorrow, heroes of tomorrow, if necessary, in the rigors of armed struggle heroes, if not, in the peaceful building of our sovereign nation.
Today is a very special day, a day that calls for intimate conversation between us, which we have somehow contributed to a direct effort to the Revolution, and all of you.
Today marks another anniversary of the birth of José Martí, and before entering I warn the topic one thing I've heard a few moments ago: " Viva Che Guevara! ", but none of you came today shouting "Viva Marti ! " ... And that's not right ...
And it is well for many reasons. Because before the birth of Che Guevara and all the men who fight today, which went as he directed, before all this momentum born liberator of the Cuban people, Marti was born, suffered and died for the sake of the ideal that we are doing today.
Moreover, Marti was the direct mentoring of our revolution, the man whose words had to resort always to give the interpretation justa de los fenómenos históricos que estábamos viviendo, y el hombre cuya palabra y cuyo ejemplo había que recordar cada vez que se quisiera decir o hacer algo trascendente en esta Patria... porque José Martí es mucho más que cubano; es americano; pertenece a todos los veinte países de nuestro continente y su voz se escucha y se respeta no sólo aquí en Cuba sino en toda América.
Cúmplenos a nosotros haber tenido el honor de hacer vivas las palabras de José Martí en su Patria, en el lugar donde nació. Pero hay muchas formas de honrar a Martí. Se puede honrarlo cumpliendo religiosamente con las festividades que indican cada año la fecha de su nacimiento, o con el recordatorio del nefasto 19 de mayo de 1895.
Se puede honrar a Martí citando sus frases, frases bonitas, frases perfectas, y además, y sobre todo, frases justas. Pero se puede y se debe honrar a Martí en la forma en que él querría que se le hiciera, cuando decía a pleno pulmón: " La mejor manera de decir, es hacer ".
Por eso nosotros tratamos de honrarlo haciendo lo que él quiso hacer y lo que las circunstancias políticas y las balas de la colonia se lo impidieron.
Y no todos, ni muchos - y quizás ninguno - pueda ser Martí, pero todos podemos tomar el ejemplo de Martí y tratar de seguir su camino en la medida de nuestros esfuerzos. Tratar de comprenderlo y de revivirlo por nuestra acción y we act today, because that War of Independence, the long war of liberation, has had its reply today and has had modest amount of heroes, hidden, outside the pages of history and yet have fully complied with absolute the precepts and commands of the Apostle.
I want to introduce today a guy who many of you may know already, and do a little story about those difficult days of the Sierra.
Do you know or not know? Joel Iglesias is the commander of the Rebel Army and the head of the Association of Young Rebels. Now I will explain the reasons why is at that position and why I present with pride on a day like today. Commander Joel
Iglesias is 17. When he reached the Sierra was 15. And when I presented it did not want to admit it was very young. At that time there was a bag of combs gun-the gun that was used at that time, and nobody wanted it to load. It was given as homework and as evidence to carry that bag down the steep hills of the Sierra Maestra. The fact that is here today indicates that he could get along.
But there is much more than that. You will have had time, little space to walk, to see that lame leg; you have not seen, they could not hear either, because it has not welcomed, which has hoarse voice, and he was not listening well. You have not seen you have in your body 10 enemy fire scars and hoarseness that he is, the lameness glorious are the memories of enemy bullets, it was always first in battle and in higher positions responsibility.
I remember there was a soldier - who later became commander - who died recently by a tragic mistake. That commander was called
Cristino Naranjo. He was nearly forty years, and the lieutenant who commanded it was Lieutenant Joel Iglesias, fifteen years. Cristino spoke of you to Joel, and Joel who commanded, was talking to you. However, Cristino Naranjo never failed to obey an order, because in our rebel army, under the guidance of Marti, we are not imported nor years, neither the past nor the political course, neither religion, nor the previous ideology of a fighter. We care about the facts at the time and devotion to the revolutionary cause.
We knew also, by Martí, not matter how many weapons in hand, but the number of stars in the front. And Joel Iglesias, and at that time, was among those who had many stars in the front, not the one who is now commander of the Army. So I wanted to present it on a day like today, for they knew that the Rebel Army is concerned with youth, and to give the youth who now lives overlooking the best of his men, the best examples of their fighters and their working examples. Because we believe that this is honored Martí.
I want to tell you many things like this today. I would explain, that I understand, that I feel in the depths of their hearts, the reason for this struggle, we went with weapons in hand, which now hold against imperial powers, and maybe tomorrow we still hold in the economic field, or even in the armed camp.
Of all the words of Martí, I think there is a defined as any that spirit of Apostle. Is one that says: " Every real man should feel on his cheek the blow to any man cheek."
That was and is, the Rebel Army and the Cuban Revolution. A Revolution Army and feel whole and in each of its members, the insult that means the slap cheek given to any man at any place on earth.
is a revolution made for the people and by people's effort, born from below, which was fed by workers and peasants, who demanded the sacrifice of workers and peasants in all fields and in all cities of the island . But that has been able to remember at the moment of triumph.
" With the poor of the earth I want my take luck, "said Marti ... and also interpreting their words, what we did.
We have been made by the people and willing to stay here until the people want, to destroy all the injustices and establish a new order social.
We are not afraid of words, or accusations, as Marti was not afraid. That first time in May - think 1872 - when several heroes of the American working class surrendered his life to defend and defending people's rights, Marti and excitement boldly stated that date and marked the face of those who had violated human rights, leading to the scaffold to the defenders of the working class. And that Marti Mayo first noted at the time, is the same as the working class around the world, except the United States, who are afraid to remember that date, remember every year in every village, and in all world capitals , and Marti was the first to point out, as was always the first to point out injustices. As he rose along with the first patriots and how you were in jail at age fifteen, and as his life was nothing more than a life destined for slaughter, thinking about the sacrifice and the sacrifice knowing that it was necessary to reality future for this revolutionary reality that you all live today.
Martí taught us that us too. He taught us that a revolutionary and a leader can not or enjoyment or privacy, you should put all his people, the people who elected him, and sends him to a position of responsibility and combat.
And when we dedicate all possible hours of day and night to work for our people, we think Marti and we feel we're doing alive the memory of the Apostle ...
If this conversation between you and us anything left, if not vanished, as are the words, I wish all of you today ... think of Martí.
think of as a living being, not a god or a dead thing, as something present in every manifestation of life in Cuba, as is present in every manifestation of the voice of Cuban life, the air, gestures of our great and it never cried partner Camilo Cienfuegos. Because the heroes, comrades, the heroes of the people, can not be separated from the people, can not be turned into statues, something that is outside the life of the people for which they gave. The popular hero should be a living thing at every moment in the history of a people. As you recall
our Camilo, and should remind Marti, Marti speaks and thinks today, with today's language, because that big have great thinkers and revolutionaries: su lenguaje no envejece. Las palabras de Martí de hoy no son de museo, están incorporadas a nuestra lucha y son nuestro emblema, son nuestra bandera de combate.
Esa es mi recomendación final, que se acerquen a Martí sin pena, sin pensar que se acercan a un dios, sino a un hombre más grande que los demás hombres, más sabio y más sacrificado que los demás hombres, y pensar que lo reviven un poco cada vez que piensan en él, y lo reviven mucho cada vez que actúan como él quería que actuaran.
Recuerden ustedes que de todos los amores de Martí, su amor más grande estaba en la niñez y en la juventud, que a ellas dedicó sus páginas más tiernas y más sentidas y muchos years of his life fighting. To conclude, I ask you to get fired as they started, but in reverse with "Viva Marti ! " is alive.
Ernesto "Che Guevara Speech
Ernesto" Che "Guevara spoke during the ceremony in honor of José Martí organized by the Association of Young Rebels, on January 28, 1960.
Cari compagni,
bambini e adolescenti di oggi, uomini e donne di domani, domani di eroi, eroi, it sarà il case della lotta armata rigori nei, eroi, altrimenti, nella costruzione peace of our sovereign nation.
Today is a very special day, a day that invites intimate conversation between us, that somehow we helped with an effort of the Revolution, and all of you. Today
takes another anniversary of the birth of Jose Marti, and before entering a topic I want to preface what. I heard a few minutes ago: " Viva Che! " but none of you thought of shouting: "Viva Martí! ... And that's not good ...
It's not good for many reasons. Why before the birth of Che Guevara and all the people today who have fought, who commanded as he commanded, before the birth of this whole spinta liberatrice del popolo cubano, Martí era nato, aveva sofferto ed era morto sugli altari dell'ideale che oggi stiamo realizzando.
Di più: Martí fu il mentore diretto della nostra Rivoluzione, l'uomo alla cui parola bisognava sempre ricorrere per interpretare i fenomeni storici che stavamo vivendo, l'uomo la cui parola e il cui esempio bisognava ricordare ogni volta che si voleva dire o fare qualcosa di importante in questa patria... perché Josè Martí è molto più che cubano: è americano, appartiene a tutti i venti Paesi del nostro continente e la sua voce viene ascoltata e rispettata non soltanto qui a Cuba ma in tutta l'America.
E' toccato a noi l'onore di rendere viva la parola di Josè Martí in his homeland, the place where he was born. But there are many ways to honor Martí. You can honor him by celebrating religious holidays each year indicate the date of his birth, or the memory of the fateful May 19, 1895. You can honor Martí citing his sentences, phrases, beautiful, perfect sentences, and also, and above all, the right phrases. But we can and we must honor Martí in the way she wanted it done, when told of his lungs: " The best way to tell is to .
So we tried to honor him by doing what he wanted to do and that political circumstances of colonialism and the bullets stopped him.
And not all, not many - and perhaps none - We can be a martyr, but we can all take example from Martí and try to follow his path to the extent of our strength. Try to understand it and relive it with our action and our conduct today because the war of independence, the long war of liberation, today had his reply and had a large number of small heroes, unknown, out of the pages of history and that, however, have performed perfectly the precepts and commandments of the apostle.
Today I present to you a guy who many of you may already know, and make a little history of these difficult days in the Sierra.
not know him or know him? E 'Joel Iglesias commander of the Rebel Army and head of Young Rebels. Now I want to explain why this takes place and why I present it with pride on a day like this.
Commander Joel Iglesias is seventeen. When he was fifteen he came to the Sierra. And when I presented it did not want to admit it because it was too baby. At that time I had a lot of machine gun magazines - the gun that I used at that time - and nobody wanted them to load on their shoulders. He was given the task and try to bring that bag to the roughness of the rugged Sierra Maestra. The fact is that here means that could carry him. But there is so much more. You do not have time to notice, as he walked very little, who limps from one foot, you could not see, you could not even hear because there has saluted, which has a hoarse voice and that it is hard to understand. You have not been able to see that in the body ten scars of bullets and enemies that his hoarseness, his glorious limp, are memories of enemy bullets, because he was always in the forefront of the fight and in positions of greater responsibility.
I remember there was a soldier - who later was himself a captain - who died a short time ago to a tragic mistake. That commander was called
Cristino Naranjo. He was about forty years, and the lieutenant who was the commanding Lieutenant Joel Iglesias, fifteen years. Cristino gave you at the Joel, and Joel, who commanded, gave him of her. However Cristino Naranjo never failed to obey one order, because in our Rebel Army, following the guidelines of Martí, no one cared nor age, nor of the past, nor of the political past, or religion, or of ' previous ideology of a fighter. We imported the events of that time and dedication to the revolutionary cause.
We also knew, thanks to Mars, it did not matter how many weapons in hand, but the number of stars on the forehead. And Joel Iglesias, already at that time was of those who had many stars on the forehead, not the one who is now as commander of the army. That's why I wanted to present on a day like today because they know that the Rebel Army is concerned about the youth and give to the youth today are facing life the best of his men, the best examples of its control and examples of his work. Because we believe that this is how we honor Martí.
I wanted to tell you many things like this today. I wanted to explain, so I intend to, so feel deep in your heart because of that struggle in which we went with weapons in hand, and that this support today against the imperialist powers, and perhaps tomorrow we would incur in the economic, or even on the battlefield.
Of all the phrases Martí, there is one that I define it as any other the spirit of the apostle.
E'quella that says: " Every true man must feel on his cheek, the slap-up to any man's cheek .
This was and is, the Rebel Army and the Cuban Revolution. An army and a revolution that they feel, as a whole and in each of his companions, represented by the insult slap cheek given to any man at any place on earth.
This is a revolution made for the people and by the effort of the people, born from the bottom, fed by workers and peasants, which required the sacrifice of workers and peasants in the fields and in all cities of the island. But he also kept in mind at the moment of victory.
"With the poor of the earth I want to share my fate , "said Marti ... and so, interpreting his words, we did.
We were chosen by the people and we are willing to continue until the people's will, to destroy all the injustices and establish a new social order.
We are not afraid of the words or not the allegations as Marti was afraid. As at that May 1st - I think in 1872 - in which several heroes of the working class American's life for donavano defend and defend the rights of the people. Martí indicated with courage and emotion that date, hitting the front who had violated human rights defenders pushing up to the scaffold of the working class. And that 1° Maggio, che Martí sottolineava allora, è lo stesso che la classe operaia del mondo intero - salvo negli Stati Uniti , dove hanno paura di ricordare quella data -, celebra tutti gli anni, e in tutte le capitali del mondo: e Martí fu il primo a sottolinearlo, come sempre era il primo a segnalare le ingiustizie. Così come si levò con i primi patrioti e come subì il carcere a quindici anni, e così come tutta la sua vita non fu nient'altro che una vita destinata al sacrificio, pensando al sacrificio e sapendo che il sacrificio suo era necessario alla realtà futura, a questa realtà rivoluzionaria che tutti voi oggi vivete.
Martí ci insegnò anche questo. Ci insegnò che un rivoluzionario e un uomo di governo non possono avere né gioie né vita privata, ma devono dedicare tutto al loro popolo, al popolo che li ha scelti e li ha assegnati a una posizione di responsabilità e di combattimento.
E anche quando noi dedichiamo tutte le ore possibili del giorno e della notte a lavorare per il nostro popolo, pensiamo a Martí e sentiamo di far rivivere il ricordo dell'apostolo...
Se da questa conversazione tra voi e noi dovesse restare qualcosa, se essa non sfumasse, come succede alle parole, mi piacerebbe che tutti nella giornata di oggi... pensassero a Martí.
Pensassero a lui come a una persona viva, non come a un dio né come a una cosa morta ma come a qualcosa che sia presente in ogni manifestazione della vita cubana, come in every aspect of Cuban life are the voice, gait, gestures and not enough of our great friend the late Camino Cienfuegos. Because the heroes, comrades, the heroes of the people can not be separated from the people, can not be turned into statues, into something that is out of the life of the people to whom they gave their. The folk hero must be something alive and present in every moment in the history of a people.
As you recall our fireplace, so you have to remember Marti, the martyr who talk and think today, with today's language, since these are the great thinkers of great revolutionaries: their language does not age. Marti's words today are not a museum, are included in our struggle and our symbol, our flag is the fighting.
This is my final recommendation: Martí, approach without fear, without thinking to get closer to a god, but a bigger man than other men, wiser and more ready to sacrifice the other, and you think you do a little revived every time I think of him, and revive the much whenever he wanted to act like you agiste.
Remember that of all the loves of Marti, his greatest love was aimed at children and youth, which in these pages dedicated his most tender and moved, and many years of his life of struggle.
To conclude, I ask you congedarmi with a "Viva Marti ! ", che è vivo.
Ernesto "Che Guevara
Discorso che Ernesto Che Guevara delivered during the ceremony in onore di Josè Martí organizzata Ribelli dall'Associazione dei Giovani, il 28 gennaio 1960.
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