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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by…

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

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

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

— 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

It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president?…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began,…

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

— 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

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

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

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

— Alejandro Castro Espin