Alejandro Castro Espin

To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.

— Alejandro Castro Espin

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

— Alejandro Castro Espin

I have a lot of faith and confidence in Cuban democracy.

— Alejandro Castro Espin

In Cuba, despite having lived through the most difficult times, there has never been a neo liberal adjustment.

— Alejandro Castro Espin

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

The future of Cuba is one earned by a country that has resisted for over 50 years against the most powerful empire…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

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

There is no one more talkative than Cubans, Cubans express their feelings, there's nobody more rebellious and revolutionary than a Cuban and…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships.

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Socialism is overcoming certain difficulties, it is working in order to try to achieve social advances, to really achieve a society where…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

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

Communism is something that comes from the classics of Marxism that talked of a modern society we should aspire to. One that…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

As you know Cuba has progressed a lot regarding all the indicators of social development and those rates can be compared favorably…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

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

The American people have on many occasions been willing to shed their own blood for a noble cause, like when hundreds of…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

When we talked about going to help Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry how many doctors in Cuba raised their hands to…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

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

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

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

Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

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

The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

What the U.S. does is it continues to print money when the economic situation gets difficult. This is what happened in the…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

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

True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind,…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

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

When the nuclear weapons were sent to the racist South African government, where a few million white people subjugated more than 13…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

The Cuban people along with international solidarity defeated this imperial position [America] in the middle of the 21st century and have demonstrated…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

The great financial capital is not in one country, it is transnational, that is why it answers to power elites and that…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

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

It is only through popular consultation and exchange with the people about social and economic policies that we were going to define…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Cuba cannot go back to capitalism; we know all the tragic experience that it has generated for Latin America and the world.…

— Alejandro Castro Espin