Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro’s revolutionary government.
Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.
At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.
Under Roca’s leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro’s revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party’s long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.
In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.
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But in the case that you do actually show up at 6:30, then I look like an absolute ass. If you are chronically late and you agree to meet at a certain time, how about you plan to be there early instead? If you plan to meet at 6:30, you can plan to arrive at 6:15. If it’s okay for other people to wait for you, why wouldn’t it be okay for you to wait instead? You can check your phone and read a book while you wait. Sounds like everyone should be happy.
I say this as someone who was chronically late for years. I have to put everything I need in my car hours before I plan to leave because otherwise I would forget. I have to set 2 alarms on my phone to remind me when to leave. Sometimes I’m still late, but it’s always within 5 minutes. I do all this because my friends shouldn’t be inconvenienced for something that’s my responsibility to plan around. Fuck your boss though, who gives a shit about being on time for work.