Citas

"I wish it would not be as a result of catastrophic economic crises that solutions are found.  Billions of people in the Third World would be the most affected.  A basic understanding of the technological realities and  the destructive power of modern weapons makes us think about the duty to prevent that the conflicts of interests that will inevitably break out lead to bloody wars."

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

“Cuba has twice as many doctors per capita as all of the highest developed nations. No country has given, or is giving, more support to other peoples’ health care services, free of charge, than Cuba and no other has saved more lives. Thus, our people do not have, nor could it have, any inclination to become a bio-weapons producer.”

References to the original: Key address at the open forum held in Sancti Spiritus province, May 25, 2002

"We possess a weapon as powerful as nuclear power and it is the immense justice for which we are struggling. Our nuclear weapon is the invincible power of moral weapons.  That is why we have never even considered producing them, nor have we ever considered seeking biological weapons".

References to the original: Speech delivered at the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of his admission to University of Havana, in the Aula Magna,

“Firstly, nobody should have the right to manufacture nuclear weapons.  There should be no privileges for imperialism to impose its hegemonic rule and to take the natural resources and raw materials away from the nations of the Third World.  We have denounced that a thousand times, but that is not the solution.  The first solution for any Third World country is to not fear the empire; we have always acted that way and they are beginning to feel demoralized.”

References to the original: Speech delivered at the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of his admission to University of Havana, in the Aula Magna, November 17, 2005

“The hundreds of military bases set up in scores of countries in every continent; their aircraft carriers and Navy fleets; their thousands of nuclear weapons; their wars of conquest; their military-industrial complex and their arms trade are incompatible with the survival of our species. Likewise, the consumer societies are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet”.

References to the original: THE SERIOUS OBAMA, September 22, 2009

“Along with nuclear weapons are cyber weapons. Another product of technology which, once transferred to the military sector, threatens to become another serious problem for the world.”

References to the original: NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE HOMO SAPIENS (SECOND AND FINAL PART), October 8, 2010

“Money and goods can freely cross borders, I repeat, but not human beings.  By contrast, drugs and weapons cross, incessantly, in either direction”.

References to the original: WITHOUT VIOLENCE OR DRUGS, 9 January 2011