CAMAGÜEY.- With the conference Fidel Castro and History Will Absolve Me, the historian Andrés Fernández Millares, delved into the moral, intellectual and legal particularities demonstrated by the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolution, which made his self-defense transcendental, on that October 16th, 1953, after the failed assault on the Moncada Barracks three months earlier.
"In that space it was evidenced how the rights of a man to be free were limited, however, our historic leader knew, with great intelligence, to destroy the slander against his comrades in arms and exposed the atrocities committed by the regime, during those events, since Fulgencio Batista came to power, with the coup-d’état, which occurred on March 10th, 1952”, said the specialist.
He explained that in his defense, of a substantial structure, "Fidel did not limit himself to disrupting the accusations against him, but rather demonstrated with his capacity that there were no grounds for imprisoning him, because he had not attacked the three powers of the State, but rather a government with dictatorial and absolutist characteristics, like Batista's”.
As another point of interest, he referred to the constant influence, in the trial, of the Constitution approved in 1940. "The court alluded to that magna carta on some 38 occasions, considered at the time as the most advanced in Latin America, and dismantled Batista's coup d'état, with a scientific and transdisciplinary vision," said Fernández Millares.
The meeting concluded with the promotion of the book, Martí's ideology in Fidel, by the president of the SCJM, Camagüey’s branch, Maricela Valido Portela, who highlighted the appropriation made by the Commander in Chief, of The Apostle, to "build a country with all and for the good of all”.
The meeting, held at the Ateneo Viet Nam bookstore, was held as part of the 200th anniversary of the Conspiracy of Suns and Rays of Bolívar, which concluded its extensive program on Friday, at the House of Memory, with the intervention of José de San Martín, a hero of America, by Telma Oliva Garcés, and the presentation of the digital book, From subjects to governed, by Jorge Ibarra, by the president of Unhic, in Camagüey, Dayron Pérez Rodríguez.
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez