There is us living the Cuban experience that we believe is ours. We do not believe that it is perfect, but it… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
We have a complete respect for history, we respect the experiences of other countries and we have our own, but the truth… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
When we talk about Cuban democracy we are referring to participatory democracy which is big difference with representative bourgeois democracy. Our is… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president?… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
In Cuba, we have a democracy that represents the humble, the dispossessed, those who make up the vast majority of the population.… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
There is us living the Cuban experience that we believe is ours. We do not believe that it is perfect, but it has been… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to build because… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political order. — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a pretext. Those… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by Washington and… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
In Cuba, despite having lived through the most difficult times, there has never been a neo liberal adjustment. — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
The American people have on many occasions been willing to shed their own blood for a noble cause, like when hundreds of thousands of… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
It is only through popular consultation and exchange with the people about social and economic policies that we were going to define the strategic… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
As you know Cuba has progressed a lot regarding all the indicators of social development and those rates can be compared favorably with the… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life. — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
![“Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a pretext. Those people that really violate human rights [the West] violate human rights from all perspectives. Typically on the subject of human rights regarding the nations from the south…” quote by Alejandro Castro Espin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/855/alejandro-castro-espin-12304_cuba_let-s-not-use-the-term-democracy-as-a-pl_224808.jpg)
