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 it has to clash with human nature and against the egotism of humans and the egotism of the elites which usually try to guarantee their own interests above those of their nations and of their own… — 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 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 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 and Cuba they say, "They are not democratic societies,… — 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 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 including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary… — 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 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 Americans participated in the fight against fascism in Europe, and other causes. There are many good people there, and the Cuban people know the American people, we have many examples of solidarity from the American people… — 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 a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share
