Home / Quotes / Quote by Alejandro Castro Espin

Quote by Alejandro Castro Espin

“In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.”

Quote by Alejandro Castro Espin

Author

Alejandro Castro Espin

Alejandro Castro Espin, born on July 29, 1965, is an individual whose identity and profession remain unclear. more

You May Also Like

“Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political order.”

People Way Political Order Social Economic Capitalism Cuban Social Order Economic Order

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships.”

States America United United States Military Latin Slips Dictatorship Repression Latin America Prominence

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“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.”

“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.”

Knows World America Environment Capitalism China Socialism Tragic Latin Cuba Latin America Positive Experiences

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.”

Thinking Should Sports Keys Losing Scared

Author:Imran Khan

“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.”

World Firsts May Stills Reality Today Term Economy Broken Development China Gdp World Economy

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Knows War America Moving Economy Economic Cold China Moving Forward Rising Cold War Superpower Great Power Financing

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“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.”

Firsts States Political Speak Cities Known Democracy Rights Modern Citizens Thousand Concepts Slave Western Definitions Territory Greece Prerogative Political Rights

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin