Citas

“Neo-liberal globalization is rapidly destroying nature, poisoning the air and the waters, killing the forests, causing soil desertification and erosion, depleting and wasting the natural resources, changing the climate”.

References to the original: ADDRESS BY COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF FIDEL CASTRO TO THE 12th SUMMIT OF THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT. Durban, South Africa. September 2, 1998

"In anguish, uncertainty and doubt some are looking for eclectic alternatives.  However, the world has no other alternative to the morally and socially indefensible, ecologically and economically unsustainable and inhuman neo-liberal globalization but to establish a fair distribution of the wealth that human beings can create with their industrious hands and fruitful intelligence."

References to the original: Speech given on the 40th Anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, held at Cespedes Park in Santiago de Cuba on January 1st,1999

"Under neoliberalism the world economy has not been growing faster in real terms; however, there is more instability, speculation, external debt and unequal exchange. Likewise, there is a greater tendency to financial crises occurring more often while poverty, inequality and the gap between the wealthy North and the dispossessed South continues to widen".

References to the original: Address at the Opening Session of the Group of 77 South Summit Conference, April 12, 2000

"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

“Globalization has been held tight by the patterns of neoliberalism; thus, it is not development that goes global but poverty; it is not respect for the national sovereignty of our states but the violation of that respect; it is not solidarity amongst our peoples but ''sauve-qui-peut'' in the unequal competition prevailing in the marketplace.”

References to the original: Speech made at the Opening Session of the South Summit in Havana, April 12, 2000

“This struggle against neoliberal globalization is a common cause shared by all the peoples of the world”.

References to the original: Speech at the closing of the 4th International Economists’ Meeting. Havana, February 15, 2002

"The neoliberal globalization imposed on the world, designed to facilitate greater looting of the planet’s natural resources, has, in the wake of the fateful "Washington Consensus" led most of the countries in the Third World, and especially those in Latin America, into a desperate and unsustainable situation".

References to the original: Speech at the Karl Marx Theater on january 3, 2004, for the 45 anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, january 3, 2004