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Student Protest in P. Rico Heroic, Fidel Castro

Student Protest in P. Rico Heroic, Fidel CastroHavana, Feb 18. – The leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro termed heroic the Puerto Rican university students'' resistance and urged respect for their rights for which they are fighting a big battle.

During Fidelâ�Ös meeting with intellectuals attending the 20th International Book Fair of Havana, broadcasted in three parts by the Cuban television, he questioned how much coverage the U.S. media gave to the heroic protests for Vieques.

The students also put up -he added- a valiant fight for Vieques, an earlier confirmation of their dignity, he stressed.

Argentinean journalist and writer Stella Calloni highlighted the student's boldness, and spoke of other events in the region like the movement of resistance in Honduras.

Therefore, she urged: "we should return to the time of the militant intellectual; we must begin an authentic revolutionary work; we cannot go on discussing subjects of interest; it's time to act, not tomorrow, nor the day after, but now, right now to do away with the confussion created by the media", said Calloni.

On the latest Middle East developments and after the comments by some of the guests, Fidel Castro stressed that President Barack Obama was worried with how the events were taking place, adding that the "owner was preocupied".

He agreed with the Spanish intellectual Pascual Serrano that history must end the cult to the consumption society, and the U.S. and Europe's insatiable voraciousness based on industrial and technological development, overriding ethics.

Fidel Castro also voiced interest on the work being made in the field of history in Cuba, and extolled the production of audio-visual means in Cuba designed to foster knowledge among the young generations.(Prensa Latina)