By Ambassador Phatse Justice Piitso
11 July 2026
I telegraph the epistle, emboldened by immense possibilities of humanity future, walking the glorious path of centenary generations, discovering the milestone journey of our common humanity, determining the course for the coming generations, changing the future not the past, epic ages of human civilisation, our mother nature, bowl of human solidarity.
The future is in the hands of those who give the next generations hope, inspiring nations to greatness, kindling flames of humanity’s dreams, embracing human progress, testimony of our milestone journey, transforming the fabric of the world into modernity, our dreams the future tomorrow.
I am a descendant of the heroic kingdom of Bakone ba Matlala, an offspring of the great chiefdom of Batau ba Masemola, my being shaped by the spectacular geography of the banks of Ngwaritsi river, of the unique historical fort on the mountain top of Phiring, cradle of legendary Kings and Queens, warrior men and women, kingdoms which could not allow courage to tremble at the face of adversity.
Tears of titanic men and women, sprinkling seeds of incalculable strength, their revolutionary spirits repudiating age, warriors igniting flames of revolutionary ferment, unconquerable wisdom shaping our courage, indomitable feats of heroism, glorious pages of history, turning adversity into hope, rising after every fall in the battle, freedom our humanity, triumph of revolutionary struggles.
You are a heir of greatest revolution to have changed the coarse of history, you are part of its family tree, I refer you, great descendant of the heroic nation of Cuba, great grandson of the first national hero of the republic, warrior Taino Chief Hatuey, great grandson of the father of the Cuban independence struggles, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, epitaph of Grito de Yara, great descendant of Apostle of the Cuban nation, Jose Julian Marti Perez, great son of the heirs of the revolution of Sierra Maestra, of the battle of Playa Giron, of Cuito Canavalle.
On the 5th of June 2026, your famous X social media platform, posted the following.
Trump Administration will no longer tolerate radical Marxist regimes in our hemisphere, seeking to threaten U.S national security and engage in operations exporting their poisonous and evil revolution, to our country and around the world.
“For decades, Cuba has been the world capital for radical left-wing terrorism. The regime in Havana has recruited, trained and backed violent Marxist and third world movements across our hemisphere and beyond.”
Today your Excellency, I am whispering into your ears what you may not want to hear, words of wisdom of the father of Latin American war of independence, our liberator, Simon Bolivar, in his historic Cartagena manifesto and famous letter from Jamaica, when he declared “the freedom of the new world is the hope of the universe”.
Writing his letter from Jamaica, on the 6th September 1815, Simon Bolivar, said that he had reason to hope that the civilised nations, would hasten to his aid in order that might achieve that which must prove to be advantageous to both hemispheres. He stated that not only the Europeans, but even his brothers of the north, had been apathetic bystanders, in the struggles which, by its very essence, was the most just, and in its consequences, the most noble.
Accepting the Simon Bolivar Award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, who at the time, was unjustly incarcerated for life by the apartheid regime in Robben Island, on the 24th of July 1983, President of the African National Congress (ANC), Oliver Reginald Tambo, Caracas, Venezuela, with profundity of gratitude, said the following:
“Yet the example of his life, must lead us to conclude that if he were able to live in, he would ask to live his life over again. For it is not possible that Simon Bolivar, could have stood aside while the uprooted Palestine nation, bled to death in the ghettos of Beirut.”
“Simon Bolivar was and is a liberator. He hated oppression, and because he hated it, fought to destroy it. He hated falsehood and therefore perished for the truth. He loathed barbarism and consequently sought to do away with everything, which aimed to impose misery on the peoples of the continent and the world.”
The Apostle of the homeland of humanity, Jose Marti, bringing forth, some of his scholarly intellectual work, “Ideas” published in 1892, in the PATRIA, New York, the necessity of the unity of the people against the enemy, reaffirming that the journal is the beginning of life, in the hour of danger, to watch over freedom, to be an invincible force of unity, and to prevent the enemy from defeating of our America, because of our disorganisation.
He says the following about the enemy of the revolution:
“Our enemy always obey our plan, to fester us, to divide us, to drown us, that is why we obey another plan, to teach us, in our work, to tighten our knot, to unite us, to outwit him, finally to make the homeland free, to make the homeland invincible.”
For the millions of the people of Africa, for the millions of the people of Latin America, for the millions of the people of Asia, for the millions of the people in the metropolis of the world capitals, the Cuban revolution already represents the future, it is a revolution which its ideas represent the world yet to come, a revolution which its ideas illuminate future society, a revolution which in its historical context, freedom is an imperishable birth right to all mankind.
The most beautiful revolution in the rostrum of the universe, where the sun rises and sets, the moon illuminate the night of darkness, where the endless horizons of the seas and oceans, added more revolutionary impetus, the humble nation of the Antilles, resilience, courage and perseverance, struggles for the freedom of humanity, fight for the right course of history. Your intellectual distortions, are already late, the revolution is two steps ahead of you, it has already changed the course of human history.
The truth no one could erase from the pages of history books is that the change makers of the generation of Fidel Castro, the warriors of Granma expedition, of the mountains of the revolution, Sierra Maestra, when they formed the July 26movement, assaulting Moncada in Santiago de Cuba and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes garrisons in Bayamo, forced into exile preparing themselves to wage arms struggles, were responding to gruesome atrocities committed by dictator, Fulgencio Batista, destroying the foundations of the Cuban nation.
For centuries Cuba witnessed to most horrific forms of oppression, for centuries Cuba has been Spanish colony, Cuba has been the outpost of American imperialism, with most of her multinational corporations and crime syndicates dominating the Cuban political and economic ecosystem. The capital city, Havana, became known as ‘Latin American, Las Vegas’, concentrated with crimes of human trafficking, drug trafficking, and brothel economy flourishing, with doses prostitutes in every street.
One of the most revered American journalists, Mr David Detzer, wrote the following after visiting Havana, after the US backed military coup by the dictator Batista:
“Brothels flourished, a major industry grew up around them, government officials received bribes, policemen collected protection money. Prostitutes could be seen standing in doorways, strolling the streets, or leaning from windows. One report estimated that 11,500 of them worked their trade in Havana. Beyond the outskirts of the capital, beyond slot machines, was one of the poorest and most beautiful countries in the Western world.”
Former Ambassador of the United States to Cuba, His Excellency, Earl T. Smith, testifying before the senate in 1960, about the Communist threat to the United States through the Caribbean, said: “Until Castro, the US was overwhelmingly influential in Cuba, that the American Ambassador, was the second most important, sometimes even more important than the President.”
On the 24th October 1963, President John Kennedy of the United States of America, in an interview with the French journalist, Jean Daniel Ben said, of the French daily newspaper, “L’Express”, acknowledging the failures of the US policies, by supporting heinous tyrannies such as the Batista dictatorship, unspeakable acts of humiliation by the American empire on the Cuban nation.
He said: “I believe that there is no country in the world, including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonisation, humiliation and exploitation, were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country, policies during the Batista regime.
I approved of the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra mountains, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further, to some extent, it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins, on the part of the United States.
“Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear.”
In the words of the Cuban revolutionary poet, Luis Rogelio Nogueras, referring to inspiring words by Fidel Castro to his Comrades, upon leaving the shores of Mexico, on the yacht the Granma: “If I leave, I will arrive, if I arrive, I will enter, if I enter, i will triumph”. He says neither the bad weather, the rough seas, or overloading of a yacht in no way, suited to make the crossing from Mexico to Cuba, could daunt the 82 Granma expeditionaries, committed to being free or martyrs, as the Granma broke through the fog.
The journey of the Cuban nation needs a deeper reflection of us all, imperialist propaganda cannot destroy the fabric of its ideas, its humility and felicity, I suppose you have became late, with the fatigue of your ideological distortions, when the Cuban revolution, has its worthiness in the glorious pages of history, of which in our daily lives and struggles, we have written together, for the history of the struggles of the Cuban people, is the history of the struggles of the people of the world.
The Cuban revolution is the fortress of the world revolutionary movement, it is a revolution of the people, by the people, for the people. It is the epitome of revolutionary internationalism, the most humble revolution in the history of the world stage. The only revolution to have paid debt to humanity, to have paid back debt to those whose population was rooted into slavery, victims of the Atlantic slave trade, to have been declared a crime against humanity, by the world nation states.
The Cuban revolution was there in Accra, Ghana helping Kwame Nkrumah, the first independent African state, it was there in Algeria, helping the heroic nation against French colonialism, it was there in Cape Verde, Bakina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Egypt, Ethiopia, Somali, Kenya, Sudan.
The revolution was there in Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Congo, it was there on the air, sea and land of the African continent, fighting side by side with the people of our continent, during the struggles for independence, thousands of her heroic men and women, perished in our trenches, in the forefront struggles for the freedom, their blood nourishing seeds for our freedom and dignity.
We the people of the mother continent Africa, shall forever be indebted to its generosity, its unwavering contribution to the cause of the struggles of our people, we shall forever place a bouquet of flowers, gratitude to its glory, love and heroism. Millions of the people of the world, humanity generations into the future, shall revere its validity, its exemplary, not offering what to spare, but sharing what it has.
The Cuban revolution, did not recruit, train and back violent Marxist and third world movements across the American hemisphere and beyond. The Cuban revolution has become an example of the world university of human solidarity and internationalism. It has trained, recruited and backed Marxist-Leninist and revolutionary nationalist movements across the world, fighting side by side, for freedom and dignity. We shall forever appreciate its selfless contribution to our struggles for the independence of the African continent.
I therefore implore upon you, not to commit the mistakes of the past, but to look into the future, fostering peace in our America, building bridges for diplomacy, finding peaceful solutions for challenges facing society, respecting the sovereignty and territorial independence of nation states, in that, we shall be ushering a new trajectory for human progress, for the world of freedom, for the hope in our universe.
The generation of those placing high the horn of the trumpet of the freedom of the new world, the world of peace, future world of humanity. We have to sing the battle cry for the freedom of humanity, for it is a necessity. It must resonate in all the streets of the world hemisphere, in the metropolis of the world oligarchy, in the impoverished vast lands of the former colonies and semi colonies.
We have to do so, for history can not lie to itself, history is not written by victors, but by those who are always on the right course of humanity’s struggles, history is the story of great nations, whose episodes of enduring legacy of generations, continue to illuminate courageous, resilient and heroic legacy into the future. We are a generation of the future of abundant possibilities, shaping destiny for future civilisations.
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Ambassador Phatse Justice Piitso is member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party writing this article, on his personal capacity.