Castro Quote by Rachael Price

For more than fifty years, the United States pursued a policy of isolating and pressuring Cuba. While the policy was rooted in the context…

— Ben Rhodes

We need to ensure that our foreign policy towards Cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. That is…

— Marco Rubio

“The actions of both sides made it easier for that American wrath to be warranted as retribution of the aggrieved. The early months saw…

— Keith Bolender

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

“When Kennedy took over from Eisenhower, the CIA spelled out much the same concerns. In July 1961 the CIA observed that “The extensive influence…

— Keith Bolender

“The US military and the CIA got busy working on plans for the conquest of Cuba. And it would be no Mickey Mouse boat…

— Mal Peet

Here is the thing people do not understand. And I have said this repeatedly. I am not against changes in U.S. policy towards Cuba.…

— Marco Rubio

“The Exciting Story of Cuba has been in demand more than I ever expected. I believe that this is partly because of the renewed…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

— Anonymous

Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want…

— Che Guevara

If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the…

— Noam Chomsky

Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status.

— Gerald Horne