Fidel Castro

When at just 27 years old Gaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

At the beginning, only eight weeks ago, I thought there was no possible solution to the imminent danger of a war.

Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centres on whether human society will survive.

It was a day in July or August of 1955 when we first met El Che. On that night, as he himself recounts, he became part of the future Granma expedition. Although up to this point, the expedition had neither ships, weapons, nor troops.