To commemorate the 55th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh 's death (September 2, 1969 - September 2, 2024), Granma, the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, 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).
According to the VNA correspondent in Havana, at the beginning of the article, author Elizabeth Naranjo quoted the poem "The Man" by Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989), a great poet of Cuba and Latin America:
Ho Chi Minh
A long journey has come to an end.
Ho Chi Minh, rest in peace, my heart:
That person was wearing white clothes.
A heart that is wide open and radiant with color.
He brought no bodyguards, no servants.
Crossing deserts and deep forests:
In white clothes, that person
Besides having an open heart, there's nothing else!
"One doesn't need 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 his homeland and in many other parts of the world, from generation to generation, he is recognized as the man whose thoughts and actions led Vietnam to independence and national reunification. 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 country's political, economic, and social structure.
Ho Chi Minh always valued 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 nations, the historical 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 far more precious than sugar!"
From distant Asia, President Ho Chi Minh said: “I only want to say that there is such a vast distance between Cuba and Vietnam that when one sleeps, the other is awake. In the past, people said of the British Empire that the sun never sets on the British flag. But now we must say that the sun never sets under the revolutionary flag. That is, our two countries are geographically opposed but have complete moral unity.”
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, in a message on social media platform X, on the occasion of Vietnam's Independence Day and the passing of President Ho Chi Minh, emphasized "His contributions to building socialism and his legacy, together with Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, for the strong relationship between Cuba and Vietnam."
In conclusion, the author assesses that President Ho Chi Minh's teachings are an indispensable part of Vietnamese national identity. His influence is felt in many aspects of contemporary life in this Asian country, making Vietnam, as he envisioned, "a hundred times more beautiful."
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