good or ill have left a political philosophy to history. A leader has a duty to understand them completely. But the ideologies that are most familiar to me are moulded in the unforgettable thoughts of Jesus Christ, Marti and Bolivar.

This is the first time I hear myself called an "Antillean version" of Primo de Rivera. If anyone says so, it must be in secret because I have never heard it. What I was called once was a "fascist" when I was in prison awaiting the death penalty; it was the traitor Fidel Castro in person. It is possible that he has friends in exile.

Q. - What do you consider the weakest of the Castro regime?
A. - The people, the people of Cuba, who would rather die on their feet than live on their knees; the people who now realize the total surrender to a foreign power and have seen the complete failure of Communist doctrine. The troops that will overthrow Fidel Castro are already in Cuba, the very people who cheered him when they thought him the hero of our liberty.

The presence of Russian occupation troops in Cuba has definitely revitalized the nationalist spirit of our country.

Q. - What will you do in case you come to govern Cuba, with private schools, with the press and with private initiative of an economic nature?
A. - In the first place, our fight is not for the purpose of putting me in the government; it is to make our country independent. But if you ask me what is my idea about what a govern-

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