We will accompany you in History

Only the enemies thought about his death , those who never managed to tear a hair out of his beard. We used to imagine you able to defeat time. Last November 25th we heard the news that we were not ready for.

The dream came to pieces. That phrase “Fidel’s death” did not exist until that moment . Even the colorless and absurdly incredible image does not exist. Instead, I was hit by those of your height, those of your rifle and smile. I wondered how I would explain to children in schools. I though how to understand the tender and firm way Raul would cry.

It will be difficult to link you to the following words: death, departure or end. A friend would said it the other way around. “A giant never dies, he only rests to continue his fight from another trench: the heart of all Cubans.”

Another would claim that “revolutionaries are not buried, they are sown”. And Maduro, the president of Venezuela, would say you go “towards the immortality of those who fight for a lifetime.”

Also, if you said good bye after so many missions fulfilled , it was when you wanted, not when the CIA wanted, not when El Pais news paper invented that.

And it is that who faced the hurricanes as equal, hurricane to hurricane; the gentleman who was always fighting for humble people, like that famous colleague from La Mancha; the man who achieved the lowest rate of illiteracy in the world … has not become the road ,but light.

Iván Márquez, representative of the FARC-EP, wrote a few hours ago: “Thank you, Fidel for your huge love for Colombia. The Peace Agreement of Havana will be our last tribute. “

Ours must be to accompany you in History, with the most impossible dreams in the hands, with the luminous star, with the mission accomplished.

TRANSLATION BY LMMS