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Let the United States start giving evidence of good faith, not with promises. Action not words! / Que empiece Estados Unidos dando pruebas de su buena fe, no con una promesa. ¡Hechos y no palabras!

12/30/2011

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_ October 1962 Missile Crisis

WE will never stand in the way of a genuinely peaceful solution. And the indispensable conditions for a genuinely peaceful solution are guarantees of the five points established by the government of Cuba.

Let the United States start giving evidence of its good faith, not with promises. Acts not words! One really convincing act would be the United States returning to us the territory it occupies on the Guantánamo Naval Base. This would be a much more convincing act than any words, than any promise on the part of the United States.

And if it does not respond to these guarantees asked for by Cuba? Then there will be no genuinely peaceful solution, and we will all have to continue living in the midst of this tension that we have experienced through now. We want peaceful solutions, but solutions with dignity. Moreover, without dignity there would be no peace, because peoples who have no dignity are not respected.

We have a right to peace. To one kind of peace or another. We have this peace – which is neither peace nor war – only because we have resisted, because we have maintained our dignity. We have the right to peace, to a genuinely peaceful solution, and sooner or later, we will obtain it, because we have won that right through the spirit of our people, through their resistance, through their dignity.

And our cause, our right to peace will open the way throughout the world. Because the whole world knows, moreover, who are those responsible for all these problems, who are those responsible for all these tensions. And the peoples of the world will come to support, more and more, our five points, which are indispensable conditions for peace.

Our people have won, and will constantly win the right to a dignified and just peace.

Let us be left to work in peace! Rather than weapons, we would prefer to use the implements of labor. We do not want to kill and destroy, but create. They are not allowing our people to create, and are constantly forcing them to mobilize, to set themselves on a war footing, to defend themselves, to prepare themselves. Because they are forcing them, not because we desire this policy. It is a policy imposed by the aggressors against our country. And what our country wants is to work, what it wants is to develop its resources, develop its people, move ahead in its peaceful work.

GRANMA
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Que empiece Estados Unidos dando pruebas de su buena fe, no con una promesa. ¡Hechos y no palabras!

La Crisis Coheteril de Octubre de 1962

Nosotros no seremos obstáculos nunca a una verdadera solución de paz. Y condiciones indispensables para una verdadera solución de paz son las garantías de los Cinco Puntos establecidos por el gobierno de Cuba.

Que empiece Estados Unidos dando pruebas de su buena fe, no con una promesa. ¡Hechos y no palabras! Un hecho realmente convincente sería que Estados Unidos nos devolviera el territorio que ocupa en la Base Naval de Guantánamo. Ese sería un hecho mucho más convincente que cualquier palabra, que cualquier promesa de los Estados Unidos.

¿No se accede a esas garantías que pide Cuba? Entonces no habrá verdadera solución de paz, y tendremos que seguir viviendo todos en medio de esta tensión en que hemos vivido hasta ahora. Nosotros queremos soluciones de paz, pero soluciones con dignidad. Además, sin dignidad no habría paz, porque a los pueblos que no tienen dignidad no los respetan.

Nosotros tenemos derecho a la paz. A una paz, o a otra. A la paz esta —que no es paz ni guerra—, sencillamente porque hemos sabido resistir, porque hemos sabido tener dignidad. Tenemos derecho a una paz, a una verdadera solución de paz, y más temprano o más tarde, la obtendremos porque nos hemos ganado ese derecho por el espíritu de nuestro pueblo, por su resistencia, por su dignidad.

Y nuestra causa, nuestro derecho a la paz se irá abriendo paso en todo el mundo. Porque todo el mundo sabe, además, quiénes son los culpables de todos estos problemas, quiénes son los culpables de todas estas tensiones. Y los pueblos del mundo irán apoyando, cada vez más nuestros Cinco Puntos, que son condiciones indispensables para la paz.

Nuestro pueblo se ha ganado, y se irá ganando cada vez más, el derecho a una paz digna y a una paz justa.

¡Que se nos deje trabajar en paz! Más que las armas, preferimos emplear los instrumentos de trabajo. No queremos matar y destruir, sino crear. A nuestro pueblo no lo dejan crear, y constantemente lo obligan a movilizarse, a ponerse en pie de guerra, a defenderse, a prepararse. Porque lo obligan, no porque nosotros deseamos esa política. Es una política impuesta por los agresores contra nuestro país. Y lo que quiere nuestro país es trabajar, lo que quiere es desarrollar sus recursos, desarrollar su pueblo, llevar adelante su trabajo pacífico.

GRANMA


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