“Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by Washington and the western powers, they already have a more favorable economic development, and even a better social development.” OrderSocialEconomicPolicyDevelopmentWesternUnfairAdjustmentSocial DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentVenezuelaNicaraguaBoliviaEcuador Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political order.” PeopleWayPoliticalOrderSocialEconomicCapitalismCubanSocial OrderEconomic Order Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“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.” WorldDoeWarStatesLastsGivenDifficultUnitedSituationUnited StatesHappenedEconomicSummerEuropeCrisisPrivilegeWoodsResolvePrintConferencesPrintingSuperpowerEconomic CrisisValueless Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“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.” KnowsWarAmericaMovingEconomyEconomicColdChinaMoving ForwardRisingCold WarSuperpowerGreat PowerFinancing Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“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.” PeopleYearsNextSocialEconomicPolicyPopulationSocialismAspirationProsperousNext YearStrategicCubaEconomic PolicyConsultation Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to build because it has to clash with human nature and against the egotism of humans and the egotism of the elites which usually try to guarantee their own interests above those of their nations and of their own people. But they are the ones that prevail because they have the economic power, the political power and the military power.” PeopleTryingHumansHardDreamWould BePoliticalNationsInterestPerfectEconomicMilitaryHuman NatureIdealsLongingCommunismAspirationGuaranteesElitesEgotismClashPolitical PowerEconomic PowerMilitary Power Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
