“Revolutionary leader and unwavering defender of the oppressed, Fidel is still alive in all those who fight for a better world,” wrote on the social network X the organization The People’s Forum, promoter of the initiative, by highlighting in the message itself that the celebration marks the beginning of its centenary.

His life reminds us that dignity, sovereignty and solidarity are not just ideals, but battles to be fought and won, he added.

The group recalled that this 2025, also commemorates the 100th anniversary of Malcolm X (19 May 1925-21 February 1965), “another unwavering voice for liberation whose legacy continues to spark struggles here and around the world,” he stressed.

“The visions of Fidel and Malcolm remain alive in every movement that dares to imagine and build a better future for the people,” emphasized The People’s Forum.

Among the images projected are that which immortalized the only meeting between Fidel and Malcolm X at the Hotel Theresa on September 19, 1960 in the iconic New York neighborhood of Harlem and one during their participation at the UN General Assembly.

Texts such as “100 years of Fidel”, “100 years of Fidel and Malcolm X” and “Let Cuba live” can also be read.

A few months after the triumph of January 1, 1959, the young rebel, then Prime Minister of Cuba, was received with sympathy by the US people.

The tour from April 15 to 28 included several cities across the country, as well as New York, Boston and the nation’s capital.

It was on his second trip, a year later, that he met Malcolm X on September 19, 1960 and the people of Harlem opened their arms to him.

A few days later, on September 26, at the UN podium, Fidel raised his voice: “We are and will always be forever with everything fair: against colonialism, against exploitation, against monopolies, against militarism, against the arms race, against the game of war. We will always be against that. That will be our stance”.

Considered one of the most prominent political figures of the 20th and early 21st centuries, Fidel passed away for immortality on November 25, 2016, at the age of 90.

Assuming that all the glory of the world fits into a grain of corn, he asked that no statues be erected to remember him.

On the monolith where his ashes rest in the Santa Ifigenia cemetery, in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, only the five letters of his name stand out.

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