“It is a document that must be consulted, given its defense of the purposes and principles of the United Nations, of the countries of the Global South, and of their right to development and self-determination,” Rodriguez wrote on the social media platform X.

The Cuban Foreign Minister recalled how Fidel Castro, from an early date, warned of the need to reform the international order and highlighted a phrase from that speech: “Let the philosophy of plunder disappear, and the philosophy of war will have disappeared.”

For its part, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs highlighted in a message on X how the historic leader’s denunciations and warnings regarding the dangers facing humanity remain fully relevant more than six decades later.

In his UN speech on September 26, 1960—considered one of the longest ever delivered at the multilateral body—Fidel Castro underscored the Cuban people’s need for self-determination and the defense of their sovereignty and development.

His address at the New York venue generated immense anticipation as he expounded on ideas regarding peace, the struggle against colonialism and imperialism, nuclear disarmament, and the exploitation of peoples.

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