In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens at the base. In Cuba we call them blocks, the divisions of a city that is the term… — 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 emerged in city/states known now as Greece. This was coming from a society in which 30 thousand citizens… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
In Cuba, despite having lived through the most difficult times, there has never been a neo liberal adjustment. — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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