for publishing a statement of its ideology precisely because we wanted everyone to know where we intended to go, how we were going and why we were going there. This background statement circulated throughout the underground and the exiles. It contains our complete ideology, and the same thing is contained in the political testament that I wrote before leaving for the Bay of Pigs, as it also appears in my book Marchas de Guerra y Cantos de Prisión (War Marches and Prison Songs), written while I awaited death, as is clearly explained in the recent pamphlet about my full statement to the members of the M.R.E.O. If wishing to carry to Cuba a state of independence, liberty, justice, respect for the dignity of human beings; if wishing to have the constitution of 1940 effective as long as it is not revoked by the same people who approved it; if opposing all demagogic extremes and all totalitarian impositions; if all this is being a fascist, then I am a fascist. But since fascism is totalitarianism established by an oligarchy in the name of supposed racial purity, I cannot be a fascist. As for the other accusations of obeying or being a cover for unsavory interests, I challenge anyone to give me the name of a single individual among our revolutionary directors who has a blemish in this respect; I challenge anyone to analyze the statistics of our martyrs; I challenge anyone to analyze our history. Q. Can you sum up in a few words the ideological base of M.R.E.?