55 years of implementing Uncle Ho's Testament: Cuban newspaper praises President Ho Chi Minh

On the occasion of the 55th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's death (September 2, 1969 - September 2, 2024), Granma newspaper - the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of Cuba - published an article titled "Ho Chi Minh with an open heart" to praise the founding leader of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam).

Uncle Ho in office room 54, April 1957. Photo: Document provided by Ho Chi Minh Museum

According to the VNA reporter in Havana, at the beginning of the article, author Elizabeth Naranjo quoted the poem "You" by Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989), a great poet of Cuba and Latin America:

"Ho Chi Minh
A long trip is over
Ho Chi Minh, peace of mind:
On the white clothes of that person
An open, glowing heart.

No guards, no servants
Crossing deserts and deep forests:
In white clothes He
Apart from an open heart, there is nothing!

One need not more for a long journey".

According to Elizabeth Naranjo, the world remembers President Ho Chi Minh as a great sage and an outstanding politician. In the motherland and many other lands in the world, from generation to generation, Uncle Ho is recognized as a man whose thoughts and actions led Vietnam to independence and national unification. President Ho Chi Minh established the foundation of the Communist Party of Vietnam, based on Marxism-Leninism and class struggle, the influences of which are reflected today in the political, economic and social structure of the country.

Ho Chi Minh always attached great importance to relations with socialist countries and liberation movements around the world. In December 1960, Cuba became the first country in the Western Hemisphere to establish full diplomatic relations with Vietnam.

Regarding the relationship between the two peoples, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, expressed that “We are ready to give the Vietnamese people not only sugar but also our blood, which is much more precious than sugar!”.

From faraway Asia, President Ho Chi Minh said: “I just want to say that between Cuba and Vietnam there is such a distance that when one is asleep, the other is awake. In the past, people said about the British Empire that the sun never sets on the British flag. But now it must be said that the sun never sets on the revolutionary flag. That is, our two countries are geographically opposed but have complete moral identity.”

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, through a message on social network X, on the occasion of the anniversary of Vietnam's independence day and the passing of President Ho Chi Minh, emphasized "his contributions to the building of socialism and his legacy together with Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz for the strong relationship between Cuba and Vietnam".

At the end of the article, the author concludes that Uncle Ho’s teachings are an indispensable part of the Vietnamese national identity. His influence is felt in many aspects of contemporary life in this Asian country, making Vietnam, as he himself hoped, “a hundred times more beautiful”.

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