{"id":3790,"date":"2023-07-07T21:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T13:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yzzks.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/07\/%e7%a1%ac%e9%aa%a8%e5%a4%b4%ef%bc%9a%e5%8d%a1%e6%96%af%e7%89%b9%e7%bd%97\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T10:26:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T02:26:03","slug":"%e7%a1%ac%e9%aa%a8%e5%a4%b4%ef%bc%9a%e5%8d%a1%e6%96%af%e7%89%b9%e7%bd%97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/asian-newsmakers\/3790\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Hardcore\": Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span style=\"line-height:1.5;\">At the Seventh Congress of the Ancient Communist Party a few months ago, nearly<\/span><span style=\"line-height:1.5;\">90<\/span><span style=\"line-height:1.5;\">year (of crop harvests)<\/span><span style=\"line-height:1.5;\">Fidel Castro, the senior leader of the Cuban Revolution, gave a rather valedictory speech, \"I will soon reach the age of<\/span><span style=\"line-height:1.5;\">90<\/span><span style=\"line-height:1.5;\">Age. Soon, I will be like all the others. All of us will face that moment.\"<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tSeemingly prophetic, according to the Cuban media<span>26<\/span>The news of the day, Castro on local time<span>25<\/span>He died on the evening of Sunday. A legend of his generation.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;text-indent:2em;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<strong>\u258b The \"hard core\" that fights for its ideals.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tFidel Castro<span>1926<\/span>surname Nian<span>8<\/span>moon<span>13<\/span>Born in the town of Vil\u00e1n, Holgu\u00edn Province, Cuba, on<span>1950<\/span>Graduated with a doctorate in law from the University of Havana in 2007.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>1959<\/span>Year.<span>30<\/span>Two years later, Castro declared the beginning of the socialist revolution in Cuba, after the uprising led by him in his early teens overthrew Batista's pro-U.S. dictatorship and established a revolutionary government. Since then, the seeds of socialism have taken root in this Caribbean land.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>1957<\/span>In 2007, Castro, who was a Cuban guerrilla leader, and his comrades.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tHowever, the road to socialism in Cuba has not been a good one.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>1961<\/span>In 2007, after breaking off diplomatic relations with Cuba, the United States launched the infamous \"Bay of Pigs\" operation, in which it supported the landing of Cuban mercenaries in the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban revolutionary regime by force.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tA year later, then United States President John F. Kennedy signed a decree marking the official beginning of the half-century-long United States trade embargo and economic blockade against Cuba.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>1960<\/span>surname Nian<span>9<\/span>In January, Castro gave a speech at the UN General Assembly that lasted<span>4<\/span>hourly<span>29<\/span>The \"marathon\" of speeches condemned the United States.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tAt that time, Cuba was in a state of disarray, embargoed and blockaded by the U.S., with economic shortages worsening, and Castro was leading the Cuban people to slowly tide over the difficult times under such hard conditions.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t\"In those days, every year when the sugarcane harvest was in full swing, Castro picked up his machete and went out into the fields to cut the sugarcane with the farmers.\" Thinking back to the last century<span>60<\/span>Xu Shicheng, a researcher at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Academy of Social Sciences, who studied in Cuba during the 1960s, said with emotion, \"Every year, we international students followed along with the sugarcane cutters, and we could see Castro mingling with the masses, with no attitude whatsoever, and being particularly cordial.\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tlast century<span>90<\/span>In the 1990s, the world landscape changed radically with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe. Many Western politicians predicted that, without the support of the Soviet Union and with the United States policy of \"pressure for change\", the Cuban revolutionary regime would soon collapse.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;text-indent:2em;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tLiu Yuqin, former Chinese ambassador to Cuba, recalled, \"Those of us who have been based in Cuba, including so many Western missions, feel that Castro is particularly authoritative, and that the Cuban people respect him from the bottom of their hearts,\" Liu Yuqin said, adding that, \"Cuba cannot succumb to it, and although the U.S. has strengthened its embargo and sanctions, the Cubans have to work together to tide over the difficulties. This is<span>90<\/span>Era Castro's overriding message to the Cuban public.\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>1994<\/span>surname Nian<span>8<\/span>moon<span>5<\/span>On Sunday, hundreds of Castro's supporters and opponents flocked to the capital Havana's promenade to hold a march, the situation is very tense. As the clashes between the two sides intensified, Castro arrived alone. Surprisingly, without a word, Castro's arrival defused the fight. Both supporters and opponents put down their rocks and sticks, put aside their positions, and chanted Castro's name in unison, \"Fidel! Fidel!\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tUnder Castro's leadership, Cuba has continued to struggle against the world's number one power by pursuing its own path of development in the face of economic difficulties. Although the strength of this confrontation is vastly different, Cuba's \"spirit of hard knocks\" in defense of its sovereignty and independence has united the strength of its people and is admired throughout the world.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tsurname Cong<span>1992<\/span>Every year since 2007, the United Nations General Assembly has voted on a resolution calling on the United States to lift the embargo against Cuba. In the last year<span>10<\/span>On the ballot for the month of<span>191<\/span>Three countries voted in favor, with only the United States and its ally, Israel, abstaining.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<strong>\u258b had been planned for assassination<\/strong><span><strong>638<\/strong><\/span><strong>subprime legend<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tCastro has probably suffered the most assassinations in the world, with rumors suggesting that he was planned to be assassinated as many as<span>638<\/span>The number of assassinations is the highest of any leader. Castro once said, \"If the Olympics had a category for the number of assassinations suffered, I would be the absolute champion. The fact that I am alive today is entirely due to the fault of the American CIA.\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>1961<\/span>After Castro declared Cuba a socialist country in 2007, with the U.S. hostility and embargo against Cuba, Castro became a thorn in the side of the U.S. (and the CIA in particular), wanting to get rid of him - even up until<span>2000<\/span>The CIA is still conducting assassination campaigns against him in the year. The assassination methods are even more varied.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tBecause Castro loved cigars, the CIA used this as an opportunity to invent a cigar that exploded instantly when lit, and was going to send it to Castro as a birthday present. But before that plan could work.<span>1985<\/span>In 2007, Castro declared: for the sake of the Cuban people, I'm giving up my favorite cigar.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tCastro liked to dive off the Cuban coast, and the CIA worked on the mollusks off the coast. They wanted to find a shell that could hold enough deadly explosives, which they would then paint in bright, shiny colors to attract Castro's attention and detonate it while he was near. This option was allegedly considered by the Clinton administration but was ultimately unsuccessful.<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tThe beauty queen CIA tried it too. By chance, the CIA recruited Castro's ex-lover, and the ex-lover got close to Castro. Castro actually knew what she was up to early on and duly pulled out a pistol and handed it to her, only for the lover to say, \"I can't do it, Fidel.\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tThere were also fungal diving suits, Mafia assassinations, etc., and the CIA tried everything it could think of - but all of these plans were aborted without exception. It's been said that the President of the United States is as strong as Castro.<span>11<\/span>All the American presidents tried to remove this \"thorn in the side\", but were unsuccessful.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<strong>\u258b Old friends of the Chinese people<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tCastro is an old friend of the Chinese people and has formed a deep friendship with several generations of Chinese leaders.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>2008<\/span>surname Nian<span>3<\/span>In January, the Chinese edition of the biography of Castro's interview: My Life was published, and in the preface, To the Chinese People, Castro wrote: \"The revolution has made the two peoples brothers, side by side, in the struggle for socialism.\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tCuba was the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with China.<span>1960<\/span>surname Nian<span>9<\/span>moon<span>28<\/span>On January 1, China and Cuba announced the formal establishment of diplomatic relations.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>1995<\/span>In 2007, Castro, as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, made his first visit to China. The visit lasted<span>8<\/span>During this time, he visited Beijing, Xi'an, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and other cities.<span>5<\/span>The city. When Castro arrived in Shanghai, many people spontaneously came to the street to welcome this guest from afar, wanting to witness the style of this Latin American tough guy, such a scene makes him very moved.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>1999<\/span>In 2007, Hurricane Irene devastated Cuba, causing a massive and prolonged disruption of electricity supply to the capital, Havana. Not long after the storm, Castro came to the Chinese Embassy to inquire about the damage. When he learned that the embassy had lost power<span>26<\/span>More than an hour later, Castro had not said a word. What was not expected was that a few days later, the ancient government sent a generator to the Chinese Embassy.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t\"The Last Century.<span>90<\/span>The Cuban economy was particularly difficult in the 1970s, but under such conditions, Castro, as the highest leader of Cuba, still thought about the staff of the Chinese Embassy and wanted to provide us with better working and living conditions, which is quite touching when I think about it now,\" Liu Yuqin recalled, \"Until now, this generator is still placed in the Chinese Embassy and can be used occasionally. and occasionally comes in handy, becoming a witness of an era.\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<strong>\u258b Final farewell speech<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tlast year<span>4<\/span>In January, Castro gave a speech at the closing ceremony of the Seventh National Congress of the Cuban Communist Party - \"Why Did I Become a Communist?\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t\"I am soon to reach the age of<span>90<\/span>Age. Soon, I will be like all the others. All of us will face that moment.\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t\"But the ideals of Cuban communists will remain intact and continue to prove on this planet that if people work hard and with dignity, they can produce the material and cultural goods that humanity needs. We need to continue to fight non-stop for this.\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tThis speech became Castro's last \"farewell speech\".\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tFrom leading the Cuban Revolution to leading the country towards prosperity, Castro is \"a bearded man who is not afraid, who cannot be crushed, who cannot be defeated\", and he is a hero in the hearts of the Cuban people.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t\"I'm with<span>82<\/span>individuals to start a revolution together. If I have to do it again, I will do it with conviction, and<span>10<\/span>maybe<span>15<\/span>Individuals do it together. It doesn't matter how small the team is as long as you have a belief and a plan of action.\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t\"Revolution is not a bed of roses, revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\tCastro took his revolutionary zeal and carried it through his life.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t\"I will eventually leave, but the ideal is immortal!\"\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span>&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:2em;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#333333;\">(The material in this article is synthesized by Peak Ridge from People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Phoenix.com and Global Times, with images from the Internet.)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Seventh Congress of the Cuban Communist Party a few months ago, nearly 90-year-old Cuban Revolutionary leader Phil<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [...]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-newsmakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8562,"href":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions\/8562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}