“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.” HardFightingAchieveBuildingLongingCommunistSocialistCubaVergeWorth Fighting For Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“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.” TryingCertainOrderSocialAchieveOvercomingDifficultySocialismElites Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“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".” PeopleHumansPlayUseNationsTermDemocracyRightsSubjectsPerspectiveSpeechDemocraticWestSouthHuman RightsFreedom Of SpeechCubaDemocratic SocietyPretextPlay On Words Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“There is no one more talkative than Cubans, Cubans express their feelings, there's nobody more rebellious and revolutionary than a Cuban and I say that without chauvinism.” FeelingsRevolutionaryRebelliousCubanTalkativeChauvinism Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals of those philosophers, of those Greeks who thought about how a society could be fairer, how a society could really represent the interests of the people. We have tried to get closer to that from a Latin-American perspective and from the Cuban perspective.” PeopleThinkingLittlesInterestBuildingPerspectiveModelsIdealsDemocraticPhilosopherGreekContributionLatinCubaCubanBuilding UpLatin American Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
