• Submitted by: manso
• Society
• 08 / 16 / 2010

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HAVANA, CUBA.- A group of members of Colombianos y Colombianas por la Paz, headed by Senator Piedad Cordoba, met with Commander in Chief Fidel Castro on Sunday morning in Havana, the Cubadebate Web site reports.

 Fidel mentioned to visitors that he spent August 13, his birthday, with old comrades in struggle, and he also asked them if they hoped the war could be stopped, a war that could begin once the deadline given by the UN Security Council was over.

 “We would be lost if we didn’t hold out hope that humanity will not go to war,” he commented, persisting in his conviction that it’s always possible to mobilize people if they’re aware that their actions for peace entail the possibility of saving themselves and save us all.

Senator Piedad Cordoba reminded her companions about her impressions of her first meeting with the Comandante a few days ago: “Fidel is capable of seeing in Obama a human being in which a lot of things combine, as if by chance: for being born from whom he was born, for coming from where he has come, and for what that origin represents within religiousness. Then, his request is like an appeal to all those things sensitizing that human being to prevent war”.

After the meeting, which lasted some two hours and during which Fidel presented visitors with autographed copies of his book “The Strategic Victory”, Piedad commented overcome by emotion: “This is like a second chance life and history are giving us. And the fact that Fidel is alive, it’s as if God, the creator of all things, had said: well, there he is, you have that opportunity.  As he has said many times, if we don’t unite, we lose, and wars are not won by force.  It’s time for reason and politics and I personally think that life is giving us that gift.” ACN

Source: Radio Rebelde