In March 29, 2012 former President of Cuba, Fidel Castro issued another one of his written “Reflections’, entitled “The need to enrich our knowledge.”
In the letter, he discussed several issues related to the dangers for the survival of humankind posed by the current warmongering race that some of the world powers are enforcing, and how the bearers of these actions tend to be characters who suffer from a lack of culture and / or knowledge.
Given the above, he said a key factor in achieving a high degree of awareness is to obtain the highest possible degree of enrichment of our knowledge.
He discussed some of the current geo-political problems, but suddenly interjected into another subject, the possibility of extraterrestrial life in the universe around us.
About it he said: “When Pope John Paul II visited the country (Cuba) in 1998, more than once before his arrival I talked about various issues with some of his helpers.
“I particularly remember the time when we sat down to dinner in a small room of the Palace of the Revolution with Joaquín Navarro Valls, spokesman of the Pope, sitting across from me. To the right was a kind and intelligent priest that came with the Speaker and accompanied John Paul II at the Masses.
“Curious about the details, I asked Navarro Valls ‘Do you think that the immense sky with millions of stars was made for the delight of the inhabitants of the Earth when we deign to look up some nights?’ ‘Absolutely’- he said. It is the only inhabited planet in the Universe ‘.
“I turned then to the priest and said, ‘What do you think of that father?’ He responded:” I think there is a 99.9 percent chance that there is intelligent life on other planets ‘.
“The answer does not violate any religious principle. Multiplied mentally, who knows how many times the figure, it was the kind of answer I would consider correct.
“After that, that noble priest was always friendly to our country. To share friendship you do not have to share the beliefs.
“Today Thursday, as occurs with increasing frequency, an European entity with knowledge published an article on the subject which reads, verbatim: “There could be thousands of millions of planets not much larger than Earth orbiting faint stars in our galaxy, according to an international team of astronomers.
“The estimated number of ‘super-Earths”-planets with up to ten times the mass of the Earth is based on discoveries already made and then extrapolated to include the population of so-called’ dwarf stars’ of the Milky Way.
“Our new observations show that about 40% of red dwarf stars have a ‘super-Earth” orbiting in their habitable zone, in which there may be liquid water on the surface of the planet”, said Xabier Bonfills, head of the team of Sciences of the Universe Observatory of Grenoble, France.
“Because red dwarfs are so common, there are about 160,000 million of them in the Milky Way, this leads to the surprising results that there are tens of million of these planets in our galaxy alone.”
“His studies suggest that there are ‘super-Earths’ in habitable zones in 41% of cases, ranging from 28 to 95%.
“40% of red dwarf stars have a ‘super-Earth” orbiting in the habitable zone, where water can exist in liquid form. “
“That leads to the obvious question as to whether any of these planets is not only habitable, but has life.”
“But these stars are given to stellar flares, which can bathe nearby planets with X rays or ultraviolet radiation, which may make less likely the existence of life.
“We have now to find traces of life on those planets,” said The researcher from the Observatory of Genoa, Stephane Udry.
“If we can see traces of elements related to life such as oxygen in that light, then we could obtain evidence on whether there is life on the planet. ‘”
“A plain reading of these reports demonstrates the possibility and necessity to enhance our knowledge, enrich it, knowledge now fragmented and dispersed.
“We may take positions critical of the superficiality with which we address both cultural and material problems. I do not doubt our world is changing much more rapidly than we can imagine.”
That much is written by Castro in his reflection, but what he discussed in it opened to us a door to reveal an important information we had known for some time, which due to personal considerations we had not published, until now.
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In year 2002 the renowned Cuban filmmaker Octavio Cortázar visited Puerto Rico in order to participate in the San Juan Cinemafest (International Film Festival).
Knowing our journalisic expertise in the field of UFO research in Puerto Rico, he called us at the editorial offices of our magazine ENIGMAS del Milenio, asking to meet with us.
We met and he gave us a copy of the first documentary ever made in Cuba about the UFO topic, of which he had been co-producer.
The documentary, entitled “UFOs in Cuba” is an excellent production that seriously and responsibly reports the very interesting UFO incidence of the island of Cuba.
Cortázar was Vice President of the prestigious UNEAC (the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba), and founder of the International School of Film and Television of Cuba, due to this, he was very respected in his professional field, both in Cuba and abroad.
The picture below shows Octavio Cortázar (left) and myself (right) during our encouter in San Juan…Read more