-DATE- 19900404 -YEAR- 1990 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- -AUTHOR- -HEADLINE- Castro, Robaina Address Havana Youth Rally -PLACE- CARIBBEAN / Cuba -SOURCE- Havana Radio Rebelde Network -REPORT_NBR- FBIS-LAT-90-066 -REPORT_DATE- 19900405 -HEADER- BRS Assigned Document Number: 000006046 Report Type: Daily Report AFS Number: FL0404162490 Report Number: FBIS-LAT-90-066 Report Date: 05 Apr 90 Report Series: Daily Report Start Page: 3 Report Division: CARIBBEAN End Page: 3 Report Subdivision: Cuba AG File Flag: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Language: Spanish Document Date: 04 Apr 90 Report Volume: Thursday Vol VI No 066 Dissemination: City/Source of Document: Havana Radio Rebelde Network Report Name: Latin America Headline: Castro, Robaina Address Havana Youth Rally Subheadline: Further on Address Source Line: FL0404162490 Havana Radio Rebelde Network in Spanish 1025 GMT 4 Apr 90 -TEXT- FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Text] Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, talked for more than half an hour with the thousands of young people present in Maceo Park in Havana awaiting 4 April, a happy day and the anniversary of the Union of Young Communists and Jose Marti Pioneers Organization. The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba told the young people about his answers to the foreign journalists who had come to Havana to participate in the news conference held on the U.S. television hostilities against Cuba. Fidel said: We Cubans prefer to die rather than not be free, I answered to some of them. 2. [Begin Castro recording] Only in freedom, honor, dignity, in the high goals that a human being can set for himself, can there be true joy, true happiness. I was thinking and meditating: These are our young people, and these young people are joyful. These young people are happy. These young people are, as someone said, educated. These young people are very politically aware. These young people are very revolutionarily aware. 3. What we want for these young people is an honorable future, a dignified future, a happy future, a joyful future, a future of freedom. What we want for all of them is the best of all imaginable worlds. We want them to be safe. We want the most one can want for people. 4. We do not want for these young people the rottenness of capitalism, the selfishness of capitalism, the vices of capitalism. We do not want for these young people, nor can we want it, that hateful world we have left in the past. We do not want to go back to being a dependent country. We do not want to go back to being a country with owners. We do not want to go back to being a people with masters. We do not want to follow that road, which is so dishonorable. [end recording] 5. The dialogue of the leader of the revolution became animated with the exchange generated spontaneously by the responses of the young people themselves. 6. [Begin Castro recording] Therefore, to those who are concerned, who are truly concerned and are sincerely capable of being concerned about our future, we say, and we have said: We prefer death to slavery. We will not renounce for any reason, under any circumstances, because of any difficulties, the road we have chosen. [end recording] -END-