Alejandro Castro Espin

Alejandro Castro Espin

Politician

Alejandro Castro Espin is a prominent activist known for his advocacy for freedom and justice, influencing social movements through his impactful quotes.

Country People Democracy Political America Years
Born
September 29, 1965
Quotes
55
Rank
#5751

Quote collection

Alejandro Castro Espin quotes (page 2 of 3)

55 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.

Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"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 had rights and 300 thousand were slaves and citizens without rights that lived in this territory. So that was the concept of western democracy; some citizens had the prerogative of exerting their civil and political rights while the others had none."

Cities Rights Political
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"The Cuban people along with international solidarity defeated this imperial position [America] in the middle of the 21st century and have demonstrated the potential of a nation that has lived under an iron handed blockade and permanent aggression including state sponsored terrorism and yet has survived. In the new circumstances we have the absolute conviction that we will move forward even more than we already have."

Moving Iron America
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon and later on Secretary of State. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing relations between the U.S. and China. At the same time that he was doing that he was also encouraging all sorts of covert actions against Cuba including political assassinations. This contradiction is one that is hard to understand."

Political President Roles
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"Basically with the financing of the war economy America emerged as the great power that developed logically into a superpower. I am not going to explain to you the history of the Cold War because you certainly know it but what we see now is China as the rising economic superpower, one that is certainly moving forward."

War Moving America
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"What the U.S. does is it continues to print money when the economic situation gets difficult. This is what happened in the last depression during the summer of 2008 when they tried to resolve the economic crisis by printing valueless money. This is the business privilege given to them at the famous conference of Bretton Woods in 1944 when the United States emerged as the superpower after Europe and the rest of the world, mainly Europe, that had collapsed because of the war."

Summer War Europe
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"If we are going to talk about the most recent of the "Indignados" movements in several countries of the world, including Europe, those are social movements but eventually they will evolve into political movements. This will happen because the traditional bourgeois parties have lost credibility after being the main political influence in most countries of Latin-America and Europe in the last 50 or 60 years."

Country Latin Party
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"The United States is the most indebted country in the world. It has almost 17 billion dollars of debt with the rest of the world while living off the world's savings. They are living off the savings of the people of Greece, the savings of the people of Spain, France etc. All of those countries that save their reserves in the banks in dollars are simply financing the American economy, and that is why the average American citizen consumes two and a half times more than their income."

Country Average Two
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"Cuba cannot go back to capitalism; we know all the tragic experience that it has generated for Latin America and the world. We also know the positive experiences of socialism not only in our geographic environment but also like what we are witnessing in China."

Latin America Positive Experiences
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"The great financial capital is not in one country, it is transnational, that is why it answers to power elites and that is why when I talk about the imperial power of United States I am in no way referring to the American people, who are a noble people that have always been moved by humane concerns."

Country People United States
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"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 in every stage of the Cuban people's fight for independence."

Fighting Blood Europe
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president? Only great capital can do that. That is why we say that bourgeois democracy has been evolving in the last years into dollar democracy, this is not the democracy of sovereignty, and only the people can determine that."

Years Democracies Have People
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"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, they do not respect human rights, and they do not respect freedom of speech"."

Play Rights Perspective
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"We have a complete respect for history, we respect the experiences of other countries and we have our own, but the truth is that if the Cuban revolution had not been a democracy it would not have survived."

Country Democracy Revolution
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"It is only through popular consultation and exchange with the people about social and economic policies that we were going to define the strategic direction of Cuba in the next years. To reach prosperous and sustainable socialism, which is our aspiration, we discussed that with the entire population."

Years People Population
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens at the base. In Cuba we call them blocks, the divisions of a city that is the term we use. Several blocks of neighborhoods that live in the same area gather in assemblies that are stipulated by law. In those assemblies the people choose freely among themselves who will represent them. The criteria takes into account the candidates characteristics, including if they are hardworking, If they are good people, if they have a clean past, and money has no bearing on who is nominated."

Block Past Law
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they put people on a list and then tell the people supposedly what they have done so they can be elected. That is the difference and why we say our democracy is truly participatory and popular."

Differences People Democracy
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"When the nuclear weapons were sent to the racist South African government, where a few million white people subjugated more than 13 million black people, it was so they could use them against the Cuban forces that were defending Angola. These things have not been written down but they need to be told as part of the reality of history which should not be distorted the way the historians connected to the power elite tend to do."

Reality Government White
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"The United States was the one nullifying any attempt in the Security Council of the United Nations to sanction those fascist governments, really segregationist and racist. The same thing it is doing for Israel is what it used to do for South Africa who ended up having seven nuclear weapons. Why didn't they act against them like they did against Iraq for the so called weapons of mass destruction during Bush that never existed in the first place?"

Government Mass Destruction Israel
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is really to help, that is true solidarity."

Medicine Political Helping
Read quote 3 likes
Alejandro Castro Espin Politician
Popular

"When we talked about going to help Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry how many doctors in Cuba raised their hands to go? 15 thousand. In their homes they said, "We are willing to go risk our lives to help other countries". That is true medicine; it is the true observance of the Hippocratic Oath that doctors swear to."

Country Home Helping Others
Read quote 3 likes