Citas

“Cuba is the one country in the world that collaborates most in helping to develop sport in the Third World. There is a growing number of trainers on contracts who are working in sister countries and doing an excellent job. We also continue to take in new students and future trainers. Our coaches are training athletes who will compete against us, in fair competitions, and we shall continue to do so.”.

References to the original: Speech delivered at an anti-imperialist rally on the 40th Anniversary of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, September 28, 2000

“In the period we are going through, but progressively leaving behind, in Cuba today we have learned that a great number of variables are possible in the development of the economy and the solution of problems. It can be done if the state plays its role putting first the interests of the nation and the people”.

References to the original: KEY ADDRESS TO A SOLEMN SESSION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEETING IN THE FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE PALACE, VENEZUELA, october 27, 2000

“There is still much that our increasingly united, better-educated and stronger people can do. We will not rest in our heroic and worthy struggle. We will honor every objective we sworn in Baraguá. We will win the epic battle of ideas.”

References to the original: Speech at the Open Forum of the Revolution in Batalla de Guisa, Granma Province.November 25, 2000

“We Cubans can feel proud of our awareness of the historic responsibility our people have acquired in their long struggle for liberty and justice.”

References to the original: Speech at the Public Forum of the Revolution held in the "Eduardo Saborit Stadium", March 31, 2001

“Without socialism, Cuban families could not watch their children grow up healthy, educated and skilled, with no fear of them being lured into drugs or crime, or killed at school by their own classmates.Without socialism, Cuba would not be, as it is today, the most solid barrier in the hemisphere against drug trafficking, something that benefits even American society”.

References to the original: Speech delivered by Fidel Castro, on the 40th Anniversary of the proclamation of the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution, April 16, 2001

"Without socialism, Cuba would not have become, without actually trying, an example for many people in the world, and the loyal and constant voice for the most deserving causes".

References to the original: Speech delivered by Fidel Castro, on the 40th Anniversary of the proclamation of the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution, April 16, 2001

“Once and for all, they crushed the absurd idea that the suffering endured, and the blood and tears spilled throughout almost a hundred years of struggle for independence and justice against Spanish colonialism and its slavery-based model of exploitation, and later against imperialist domination and the corrupt and bloody governments imposed on Cuba by the United States, were to serve for the rebuilding of a neocolonialist, capitalist and bourgeois society.We did it at the exact and precise moment in history, not a minute before and not a minute later, and we were daring enough to attempt it”.

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