Causes Quote by Jill Stein

When Cuba lost their fossil fuel pipeline when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. Overnight they had no choice, they had to transition to…

— Jill Stein

The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health care systems…

— Tom Gjelten

For more than fifty years, our policy towards Cuba was not making life better for Cubans. In many ways, it was making it worse.

— Ben Rhodes

It is a dictatorship. They did have a good health - do have a decent health care system and a decent educational system. A…

— Bernie Sanders

While they [on Cuba] were eating a healthy and sustainable diet and had no pollution over a period of years these health improvements were…

— Jill Stein

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the…

— Barack Obama

It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.

— Michael Moore

Cuba does business with nearly every other country, with its largest trading partners being Canada, Venezuela, China, Spain, and the Netherlands. What has this…

— Nicole Malliotakis

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

— Ronald Reagan

Cuba is a poor country. Most of the Cubans who leave only do so if they can find better economic conditions elsewhere. That's why…

— Mariela Castro

“Castro’s revolution, with all of its supposedly good intentions, put a stop to the growth of Havana. Of course it put an end to…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

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

— Alejandro Castro Espin