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Fidel – the great leader with significant achievements
Fidel – the great leader with significant achievements
29/11/16
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| Fidel Castro |
What had Fidel Castrol done for
his country and brotherhood nations? How many leaders who could make such
achievements?
Contributions to Cuba and the
Cuban people:
Under Fidel Castro's rule,
literacy grew dramatically, racism was eliminated, public health care was
repaired and enhanced, the electric grid was expanded to the countryside, full
employment was provided, and new medical facilities and schools were
constructed.
·
Education: The
literacy rate in the country is 99 percent. Cuba offers free education from
elementary school through university.
·
Gender equality: Cuba
was the first country to sign and the second to ratify the Discrimination
against Women convention. Nearly half of the parliamentary seats in the Cuban
National Assembly are occupied by women.
·
Under Cuba's
constitution "any form of discrimination harmful to human dignity" is
prohibited and gender reassignment surgeries have been available under its
national healthcare, free of charge, since 2008.
·
the rate of infant mortality has reduced from 42% to 4%
·
Cuba has more than 130.000
doctors to ensure that every 130 people have 1 doctor.
·
Each year, Cuba trains thousands of foreign
students in health care study from 84 countries.
·
Global humanitarian
programs: Since 1969, a total of 325,710 Cuban health workers have participated
in missions in 158 countries.
·
As the only Latin America country does not have malnourished children.
·
As the only Latin America country does not have drug trafficking.
·
100% children go
to school
·
As the only
country that there are no homeless children
·
Castro's
acceptance of environmentalism led Cuba to become the first nation in
the world to meet sustainable development according to the World Wide Fund for
Nature's definition.
·
Health: For all
Cubans, healthcare is completely free. Cuba created the Meningitis-B
vaccine in 1985, and later the vaccines for Hepatitis-B and Dengue.
·
The average age
of the Cuban people is 79
·
As the first
country in Latin America to beat the United States to the gold-medal
table in Olympic.
·
Employment: The
unemployment rate in Cuba
as of 2014 was 2.7 percent. International Worker's Day, or May Day, is a major
national workers celebration in Cuba.
The great friend of Vietnam
“Cuba
is willing to devote blood for Vietnam”
is among famous statements of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castrol, a name
that Vietnamese people always keep in their mind with love, admiration and deep
sympathy.
For decades, Fidel Castro had been a symbol of revolutionary heroism, spirit of undaunted struggle and desire for freedom and happiness.
Under the leadership of Fidel, Cuba was the pioneer in the world movement of supporting Vietnam’s struggle for independence as well as national construction. The image of the Cuban commander-in-chief, in his olive uniform, standing in an enemy’s blockhouse raising the flag of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, became an extremely impressive image and a source of encouragement to Vietnamese people then.
During hardest period of the anti-US revolution, Fidel’s saying “Cuba is willing to devote blood for Vietnam” melt the hearts of Vietnamese and Cuban people as well as peace-lovers around the world. The Cuban leader and people considered Vietnam’s struggle as their own.
Also in his first visit to Vietnam, Fidel Castro presented Vietnam with five important socio-economic works: Thang Loi Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam-Cuba Hospital in Quang Binh, Xuan Mai Road, Ba Vi cow breeding farm, and a Luong My chicken factory.
He also gifted Vietnam cow and chicken breed, along with more than 6 million USD for buying modern production equipment. At the same time, Cuba also sent experts to Vietnam to join the construction of Ho Chi Minh Trail and train more than 1,000 Vietnamese university students and post-graduates. Cuba also supported Vietnam in joining the United Nations.
Despite the long distance, the warm sentiments and faithful friendship that Fidel Castro given to Vietnam will stay forever in the hearts of generations of Vietnamese people. For them, Fidel Castro is always a great friend.
For decades, Fidel Castro had been a symbol of revolutionary heroism, spirit of undaunted struggle and desire for freedom and happiness.
Under the leadership of Fidel, Cuba was the pioneer in the world movement of supporting Vietnam’s struggle for independence as well as national construction. The image of the Cuban commander-in-chief, in his olive uniform, standing in an enemy’s blockhouse raising the flag of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, became an extremely impressive image and a source of encouragement to Vietnamese people then.
During hardest period of the anti-US revolution, Fidel’s saying “Cuba is willing to devote blood for Vietnam” melt the hearts of Vietnamese and Cuban people as well as peace-lovers around the world. The Cuban leader and people considered Vietnam’s struggle as their own.
Also in his first visit to Vietnam, Fidel Castro presented Vietnam with five important socio-economic works: Thang Loi Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam-Cuba Hospital in Quang Binh, Xuan Mai Road, Ba Vi cow breeding farm, and a Luong My chicken factory.
He also gifted Vietnam cow and chicken breed, along with more than 6 million USD for buying modern production equipment. At the same time, Cuba also sent experts to Vietnam to join the construction of Ho Chi Minh Trail and train more than 1,000 Vietnamese university students and post-graduates. Cuba also supported Vietnam in joining the United Nations.
Despite the long distance, the warm sentiments and faithful friendship that Fidel Castro given to Vietnam will stay forever in the hearts of generations of Vietnamese people. For them, Fidel Castro is always a great friend.
For the former Soviet Union
When Chernobul tragedy happened, although a lot of Cuban students to the Soviet Union were living with very little pension money, the country was also very difficult due to the economic embargo, the Cuban people were very difficult to do business, Cuba had cured free for more than 30 thousand contaminated children from the Soviet Union.
When Chernobul tragedy happened, although a lot of Cuban students to the Soviet Union were living with very little pension money, the country was also very difficult due to the economic embargo, the Cuban people were very difficult to do business, Cuba had cured free for more than 30 thousand contaminated children from the Soviet Union.
Ties to Africa's
liberation struggle
Quite
apart from his contribution to the liberation struggles on the African
continent in the past, some countries on the continent, including Ghana,
still benefit from the health-care services provided by Cuban doctors who visit
the country on rotational basis.
Back
to the 1950s when Castro and his cohorts including Ernesto Che Guverra and his
brother Raul were plotting to free Cuba
from the right-wing dictator, Fulgencio Batista, extending his liberation
struggle beyond the Americas
was probably not in the plan.
Fast
forward to the rise of the Black Power movements in the 1960s as well as the
pan African movements of the 1970s and you would notice that the struggle for
liberation from colonial powers by Africans got a little help from the western
hemisphere.
Fidel
Castro joined two major battles on the African continent – in Angola and Ethiopia
at the height of the cold war – as he was convinced that the global stage for
the world revolution was happening in Africa.
Responding
to calls for help from the Angolan Marxist guerrilla leader Agostinho Neto who
had seized Luanda during a bloody war from the
Portuguese, Castro sent troops to Angola.
Cuba’s involvement in battles
far away from home however came at a cost. Some 4,300 Cubans are believed to
have died in conflicts in Africa, half of them in Angola alone. Experts however say
the numbers have been sharply underestimated.
Castro’s
support for Africa’s liberation led him to meet with some of the continent’s
leaders including Patrice Lumumba of Congo, Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, Sam Nujoma
of Namibia, Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Robert
Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
Cuban
soldiers are documented to have fought alongside Nambians and South Africans to
prevent the apartheid regime from spreading all over southern Africa.
Cuban
troops have since the 1960s, served in Algeria,
Guinea, Guinea Bissau,
Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone
and Libya./.
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