Citas

“The country did all it could and is doing all it can in matters of education. And it has been able to maintain what we have despite the worsening of the blockade”.

References to the original: Speech at the Closing of the Second Special Education World Meeting, 20 june 1998

“Revolutionaries have always fought for the future. Máximo Gómez and Martí fought for the future. When Martí died at Dos Ríos he knew he was dying for the future. He was not concerned with seeing the results of all that. It would have been extraordinarily useful to have him longer. It can be said that he died in the prime of youth, when his talent was at its best. They were fighting for the future.”

References to the original: Master lecture delivered at the autonomous university of Santo Domingo, August 24, 1998

“It is possible for our country, in its capacity as a revolutionary state, to devote a great part of its efforts to that struggle for the future, to that struggle against the neo-liberal globalization that is crushing us all. It is not the struggle against globalization as an inevitable phenomenon, but the struggle for a more humane and fair globalization.”

References to the original: Master lecture delivered at the autonomous university of Santo Domingo, August 24, 1998

“Our revolutionary and truly socialist conception is perfectly compatible with the idea of foreign investment and the utmost possibilities, guarantees and security for those who invest in our country”.

References to the original: SPEECH AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 16TH HAVANA INTERNATIONAL FAIR FIHAV ’98, November 1st, 1998

"Building awareness, shaping the character, educating in the tough school of life in our times, instilling solid ideas, using irrefutable arguments, preaching by the example and trusting man's honor can create a situation where, out of every ten, nine will remain at their combat position alongside the flag, alongside the Revolution and alongside the Motherlan."

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

"We must consolidate our achievements, we should study, work, struggle and fight in the spirit of our heroic comrades in Uvero, in the glorious days of the huge enemy offensive, in the battles and the events that we have recalled today".

References to the original: Discurso pronunciado por el Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz en el acto central por el cuadragésimo aniversario del triunfo de la Revolución, efectuado en el Parque Céspedes, Santiago de Cuba, el día 1ro de enero de 1999

"(...) I see a new hour in Venezuela, an immovable and inseparable pillar of the history of our America. One has the right to trust one's own experience or viewpoint. Not because one is infallible or because one has not made mistakes but because one has had the opportunity to take a 40 yearlong course in the academy of the Revolution".

References to the original: Master lecture delivered at the main lecture hall in the Central University of Venezuela, 3 February, 1999