Citas

"Given the struggle of ideas at a world level, oftentimes there is no access to the mass media controlled by the big transnationals, or there is no access to the large television or information chains. But there is always a way to make the message reach the world, there is always a possibility, and the more communications develop, the more this will be possible".

References to the original: SPEECH AT THE CLOSING OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING ECONOMIA’98. International Conference Center, 3 DE JULIO DE 1998

"I am deeply convinced that the problem cannot be solved by force, that the military technology will crash against the will of any people determined to fight. I firmly believe that when the people are willing to fight --and this is how I feel about our own people, too-- no power, regardless of its might, can throw them down on their knees".

References to the original: Address at the reception to the delegation attended a Baltimore sports, May 4, 1999

"I believe that, rather than weapons the peoples need ideas. They need a change from an inhumane, unsustainable global world that threatens life on the planet, to a just and humanitarian social order that offers humanity an opportunity to survive. The peoples need a world with a bit of drinking water and air to breathe where the necessary food is available and advanced technology can be used to produce housing, schools to educate the children, medicines to preserve human health and medical care indispensable to all, children, adolescents and the elderly".

References to the original: Speech given by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Councils of State and Ministers, upon receiving the José Bonifacio Medal, Grand Official grade, at the Rio de

“The most sophisticated technology they employ to try to turn us into slaves or subjects of a universal imperial power are not and never will be able to defeat the conscience and intelligence of human beings.”

References to the original: Speech by the President of the Republic of Cuba, Fidel Castro Ruz, at the ceremony commemorating the 45th anniversary of the landing of the Granma expedition and the birth of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, in Antonio Maceo Square, Santiago de Cuba, Decem

“From a political point of view, we are living in an era when there are and there will be weapons much more powerful that any produced through technology, namely: the weapons of morality, reason and ideas; with them no country is weak but without them no nation is powerful”.

References to the original: Answer the President of the Republic of Cuba to the statements of United States government on biological weapons, May 10, 2002

“They will exist as long as our species does. Never before has the latter faced as serious a threat, owing to the combination of society's political underdevelopment and the fruits of technology, which appears limitless and whose capacity for self-destruction is beyond reason. Genocidal wars, climate change, hunger, thirst, inequality are everywhere we look.”

References to the original: Response to the Message from the Young Communists League
“The United States government is using unimaginable economic means to defend a right that violates the sovereignty of all the other countries: to keep on buying the raw materials, the energy, the advanced technology industries, the most productive lands and the most modern buildings in the face of our planet with paper money.”
References to the original: Reflection by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro entitled Deliberate Lies, Strange Deaths and Aggression to the World Economy circulated in the international media, 18 September 2007