Fidel was a champion in the pantheon of the people, a man who made indelible contributions in the global struggle for equality and emancipation. He will be remembered for many reasons, among them:
Fidel led his country out of poverty, creating employment for all, bringing the infant mortality rate down under the US level, advancing the literacy rate higher than in the US, abolishing official racism, acting in solidarity with the poor and oppressed throughout Latin American and Africa, assisting Vietnam militarily against the US goliath. These struggles favoring the poor over the rich inspired billions of people, many of whom voted their progressive political parties into power.
Without the solidarity Cuba's leadership and soldiers offered to Angola, and indirectly to Namibia and the black people of South Africa, white racist South Africa with US-Israel support would have likely crushed their struggles for sovereignty. Furthermore, Nelson Mandela would have died in prison--that is what I heard him say in Cuba standing beside Fidel soon after his release from prison. And Fidel not only sent military assistance, he organized the sending of hundreds of thousands of highly educated Cubans around the world to heal and to teach"
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