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This research characterizes Fidel Castro's speeches on journalism and communication between 1959 and 2008, time in which his political mandate elapsed. It describes the communicative context in which discourses are inserted and discusses strategies and discursive structures present in them, as forms of legitimization of power that -as in so many other societies- use dominant groups. The results indicate the use of strategies of positive self-presentation of the power elites, framed in a concept of "the revolutionary", and negative presentation of all those social actors that manifest models of society contrary to their ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]