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"I think it's wrong for North America in particular, the West in general to make a comparison between the economic situation in Cuba and the extraordinarily developed industrial complex of North America."
"Let's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that."
"It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it."
"Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba."
"One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]"
"[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists."
"We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba."
"President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie about Castro."
"In Cuba, despite having lived through the most difficult times, there has never been a neo liberal adjustment."
"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."
"Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America]."
"In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life."
"Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves."
"What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually."
"Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower."
"It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States."
"The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family."
