"How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and occupied them, in the face of the serious situation of social emergency, have not even had the capacity to send doctors there. In some cases they have sent in militaries instead because that is what they are compelled to do. They have had to send military to do it because they do not even have any doctors with the willingness to risk their lives in order to help those people that are precisely paying for the consequences of years of colonization."
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Alejandro Castro Espin quotes (page 3 of 3)
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"When we talk about Cuban democracy we are referring to participatory democracy which is big difference with representative bourgeois democracy. Our is a democracy in which everything is consulted with the people; it is a democracy in which every aspect and important decision that has an impact in the life and society of the people, is done in consultation."
"In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked for us and the clearest evidence that our democracy has worked is that there is a revolution that has continued after a half century of facing down the most powerful empire. This has not happened many times in history."
"In Cuba, despite having lived through the most difficult times, there has never been a neo liberal adjustment."
"Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that? How can one explain that to a working family, that produces goods and services, those who produce the olive oil that is a a main source of food in any European country? They humbly work the land with great effort and then the little resources they had saved in banks have now become dust simply because they did not have the means to withstand inflation produced by the adjustment policies."
"I have a lot of faith and confidence in Cuban democracy."
"Socialism is overcoming certain difficulties, it is working in order to try to achieve social advances, to really achieve a society where everybody improves, not where just the elite improve and the others get worse."
"In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for."
"To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia."
"Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political order."
"The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships."
"Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America]."
"Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality."
"Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives."
"In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life."