Commemorating the LOth Anniversary of the armed uprising of the du.ban people, Fidel Castro said that " The great significance of this date liss in the fact that on that day, our people bogan on 6 small scale to embark on a road to . revolution." He went on to say, We did not manage to take tho Moncada Barracks at that time, mt we remained cecnfident, Ye firmly believed that that was the road and undertock thea task of pushing the atrugele forward on « basis of more mature experience. Finally the correctness of the road was. borne out by history,facts and life." The attack on the Moncada Barracks ‘nade possible what in the past had seemed impossible— the destruction of a modern army. This contradict:. theories which state that the paople could not fight these forces,"
" For the peopls of various countries} he said,"there was always a z road; and for the oppressed psooples,there was. always a way to solve problems, This road could not. opan-by itsolf but mst be opened by the people, Revolutionary fighters should open this road,"
He eaid “the duty of revolutionaries ws not simply to study theories tut to find out a way,.a tactic and a strategy by moans of which these ideas could emerge victorious. It would never do to wait indafinitely for tho road to open by itself or to wait for a miracla by which ths axploiting regime would disappear."
Castro said that. ths situation in Latin America was that of a continent in crisis and on such « continent revolution was inevitable. ‘What has taken place in Cuba is not miraculoussit could also take place in other Latin American countries", The pro-revolutionary conditions in those countrias ware incomparably superior to those which had oxisted in Cuba, he said,
He went on to condemn tha U.S, for using the“illiance for Progress" as an instrument of ryprossion against the people of Cuba and other Latin American countries, and pointed cut that the ‘alliance’ had become insolvent. He continued, "But the revolution is firmly established, very firm, as unshakeable as a reck. The Cuban revolution will witness the end of those treacherous running dogs who have betrayed their country." He pointed out that "revolutionary consciousness is rising and the fighting spirit is mounting in Latin America."
He paid tribute to the fighting Venemuelan and Guatomelan poopld& He said that the revolutionaries should not facilitate the T5. | trick of holding elections but should try in 100,001 ways to otetruct and opposa such elections. He then expressed iraternal grostings to the heroic fighters in South Vietnam m their struggle against imperialism. He said that ths imperialists were resorting to the methods usgd in Vietnam to daal with revolutions in Latin America but greater defeats sai ARG nR oPER7G. SOF CURSE relations, he said "The Cuban Government has put forward a proposal, like it did in the early days of the revolution declaring that it is ready to hold discussions with all those who are prepared to work for the improvement of relations with all countries including the U.5. But they answer with plans to sot up war bases in Contral America to carry out agpressivo activities against Cuba," "When Kennedy came to office, ho talked glibly sbout pursuing a new policy. “hat had he done? He hed invaded Cuba. Recently he delivered in an American Universitya speech larded with words about peace, but soon afterwards ho used war-like words during his stay in Berlin." "If they do not want coexistence, what can they do? They do not want to live together with us,but we ore here and we shall remain here."