Fidel was not meant to be Fidel. He could have been a successful lawyer, with a peaceful, quiet and comfortable life, without material upheavals. Or having achieved a prominent position in traditional Republican politics, which would have guaranteed him prestige, privileges, and perks. Conditions of possibility were plenty for him, not only the origin of a wealthy family, but also the conjunction of a series of values and personal characteristics that predicted a brilliant future for him in whatever career he chose for his life, according to the acute observation of a his teacher. It had, according to the troubadour, several chairs that invited him to sit down.
But he chose the hardest path, and at the same time the most worthy of a human being: that of service, that of giving himself to others, that of fighting tirelessly for justice and the liberation of people. In other words, he chose the path of the Revolution and offered his existence to it.
He was an inveterate and unrepentant rebel. Even before becoming a revolutionary, a Martian, a Marxist, he had already forged from his childhood and adolescence an insubmissive character that stood up energetically in the face of injustice and arbitrariness. It was a condition that never left him. He not only rebelled against the US dictatorship and imperialism, but also against dogmas that declared the impossibility of a revolution in Cuba, against geopolitics that assigned a subordinate and inconsequential role in the international arena to a small underdeveloped island like ours, or against the "common sense" that normalizes discrimination and domination.
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