When a lawyer and revolutionary raised his voice for justice

Fidel Castro defined the nature of law, in terms of life and human dignity. When he combined his legal profession with his revolutionary leadership, he participated in an act and left a document with a beacon of light for the future of his country and the freedom of the world.

History Will Absolve Me went over as Fidel’s plea for self-defense for the events at Moncada. But we would settle the debt if we removed the prefix from the word “defense”, because he also accepted that attitude towards his fellow activists and towards the people. He even called the honor of military wings just tyranny.

He detailed the ploys to silence him during the trial of the attackers, because his testimony would end the torture aimed at the Movement and expose the crimes against him. its members, and even against the civilian population of Santiago de Cuba.

The truth, although it was aimed at the guns, had deposited the prosecutors and is accused of preparing a sentence that was given by the people shortly after five years, as the prosecution warned , with great confidence in popular support.

Guided by a great sense of justice, the Commander-in-Chief turned more than once to his teacher José Martí, whose testimonies he shared with his brothers about dreams and dangers. How much of the Political Prison in Cuba lives in that act of protection?

When Fidel announced, regarding the government’s soldiers, the goal of “fighting with him, as brothers that they are, and not in front of him, as enemies that they want to be, it is the same principles that were built before the Force. A war that is necessary: ​​”the Cuban greets in death the Spaniard whom the rigors of the exercise tore from his home and his country to come to kill in the breasts of men the freedom of he himself wants.”

The leader of the Revolution mentioned the first five laws on the agenda of a transformative government and described the national overview, focusing on six main problems. In addition, he praised the sacrifices of the members of the Movement.

Without crying out for revenge for a priceless life, taken between hunting and torture, he recognized the fulfillment of the joy for which they gave everything as the only price worthy of the reward of death.

When the mystery of the Apostle seemed to abandon us in the centenary year, a group of young people ran to save him, and one of them told us about his reason with the inconsistency of the Baraguá complaint and with ideas at the level the texts like Our America .