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 the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon and later on Secretary of State. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing relations… — 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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