CUBAN revolutionary leader Fidel Castro assured the world “the Cuban people will win” on Tuesday.

Speaking at the close of the Communist Party of Cuba’s seventh congress in Havana, el Comandante reminded the nearly 1,000 delegates of the “greatest honour” of representing the people.

With the Cuban revolution in its 67th year, Mr Castro said that another 70 years should not pass “for humanity to have another example of a great social revolution that represented a huge step in the fight against colonialism and its inseparable companion, imperialism.”

Mr Castro warned that the destructive power of modern weaponry was the greatest threat to the survival of the human race.

Such weapons could make the planet’s surface uninhabitable, consigning humanity to the same fate as the dinosaurs, he said.

But the revolutionary also warned of the dangers of climate change, saying: “The practical man must learn more and adapt to reality.

“Who will feed the hungry people of Africa with no technology at their disposal, nor rain, nor dams or underground reservoirs?

“We’ll see what the governments that signed climate commitments will say.

“Let’s hope many humans worry about these realities and don’t continue like in the times of Adam and Eve, eating forbidden apples.”

Reflecting on his own advanced age, the 89-year-old former president said: “Everyone will eventually die, but the ideas of Cuban communists will prevail.

“If you work with fervour and dignity, the material and cultural goods that humans need can be produced and we must fight relentlessly to obtain them.”

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