Fidel Castro had a unique grandeur, with a humility that made it even bigger, said Fátima Patterson, a prominent Santiago actress who participated in several congresses of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba in which she shared with the Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Revolution
Patterson recalls Fidel's ever-active presence, and especially when the Sixth Congress spoke clearly about the problems of racism, the evils that were looming, that were asleep and awakened, and she intervened on a project to confront it, But he thought he was alone in the capital.
That session was over and when we returned to the plenary somebody asked: where is Fatima and was the voice of Fidel, imagine when that voice asks for someone.
I remember Sara Gonzalez was there, near me and she said: Fatima, he's calling you, he's talking, tell him everything you think.
And we began to talk about all the situations that I thought existed, what happened in Santiago de Cuba on the subject, because the congress was for that, to see what was happening in the culture of the country, and then began to ask many questions .
I knew I had to answer and not stay silent and in the end he said, you're right, this is a historical problem that has been going on for 500 years, but we're going to solve it, "recalled Fatima shocked.
Fidel Castro took it as an example of life, assured the director of Teatro Estudio Macubá, in this eastern city.
I am a very hard-working woman, but if it had not been for the encouragement he gave the Cubans I would not have been so hard-fought, he bequeathed me that.
I do not want to lose any fight and, although sometimes it is lost, I do not give up, I do not want to give up and that has to do with Fidel.
I received the news of his death at dawn on the 26th and I was not ready, then I realized that I never expected it, and I kept thinking that we are not going, because it has given us very beautiful things and also the responsibility to take care of them.
When I told the news to my daughter she cried out in pain, my granddaughter was looking for something to offer her and then I told her: what you do every day, which every time you have to do better.
Fidel will be in Santiago de Cuba, in his beloved land and the Cubans will pay homage to him daily with dignity and work, being increasingly decent, increasingly revolutionary, struggling, pending how to help others and the rest are all of America America and the world, he said.