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“As Latin Americans, we should try to cooperate with Colombia, with the country itself, to help it achieve a fair peace, one that would benefit everybody”.

References to the original: Speech given in the closing ceremony of the first International Congress on Culture and Development. International Convention Center, June 11, 1999

"In Latin America, where neoliberalism has been applied with absolute attachment to doctrine, economic growth in the neoliberal stage has not been higher than that attained under the previous state development policies".

References to the original: ADDRESS AT THE OPENING SESSION OF THE GROUP OF 77 SOUTH SUMMIT CONFERENCE, April 12, 2000

“Latin American and Caribbean integration is fundamental. It is only by joining together that we can negotiate our role in this hemisphere and the same applies to the Third World countries vis à vis the powerful and insatiable club of the wealthy.”

References to the original: CUBA WILL NEITHER NEGOTIATE NOR SELL OUT ITS REVOLUTION WHICH HAS COST THE BLOOD AND SACRIFICE OF MANY OF ITS SONS AND DAUGHTERS, June 22, 2000

"From day one of the revolutionary victory our country has never set obstacles to the legal emigration of Cuban citizens to the United States or to any other country. At the time of the triumph of the Revolution many people in Cuba, like in the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America, who endured poverty and underdevelopment, wanted to migrate to seek for better paid jobs and better living conditions than they could find in their countries subjected to centuries of exploitation and plundering. Until 1959, an extremely limited number of visas were issued to Cubans. After that, for obvious reasons, the gates were wide opened and that is how an important number of Cubans began settling in the United States".

References to the original: Key address at a mass rally in the "José Martí" Anti-imperialist Square, November 27, 2001

“They were born 83 years apart. The first was already a legendary figure when the second entered the world. If one of them proclaimed that whoever tried to take possession of Cuba would have to gather up the dust of its soil soaked in blood, if he did not perish in the struggle, the other soaked Bolivian soil with his blood trying to prevent the empire from taking over America”.

References to the original: Speech given at the ceremony in homage to the births of Maceo and Che in el Cacahual, Havana, June 15, 2002

“There shouldn’t be any wars. We should make efforts to find peaceful solutions everywhere, in Colombia too. There shouldn’t be any wars, because at this time in the history of the Americas, no problem can be solved through wars”.

References to the original: Interview given to El Clarin journal. Buenos Aires, Argentine, May 26, 2003

"Colombia’s problem can only be solved through peace, and in peace; everyone should cooperate. True peace, because quite a few "peaces" there have ended up in the cemetery."

References to the original: Interview given to El Clarin journal. Buenos Aires, Argentine, May 26, 2003