We are not going to give up the desire for us to be happy. We are not going to give up fighting for us to achieve happiness.  No condition will make us relent in our efforts.  I know that many people think that way.  It doesn't matter how minimal what is achieved with shared effort is. One step is enough to take another. That's why, now that the year 2025 is about to begin, I present here "Desiderata from the crisis."

The calendar marked Thursday, January 1, 1959.  Around five in the morning, through Radio Rebelde, which was at that moment in Palma Soriano, Fidel dictated precise orders to the column leaders not to cease fire in the face of Eulogio Cantillo's betrayal: the tyrant Fulgencio Batista had fled, and a deal was being concocted in the capital to thwart the revolutionary triumph with a civilian-military junta.