Citas

“The crisis results from the resounding and irreversible failure of an economic and political concept imposed to the world: neoliberalism and neoliberal globalization.”
References to the original: Remarks at Cuban television on the current international situation, the world economic crisis and the way it can affect Cuba.
“Everything created since Bretton Woods until today should be reconsidered. A farsighted vision was then missing, thus, the privileges and interests of the most powerful prevailed. In the face of the deep present crisis, a still worse future is offered where the economic, social and ecologic tragedy of an increasingly ungovernable world would never be resolved […]”
References to the original: Speech given at the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, March 21, 2002
In the face of climate changes, environmental damage caused by other factors, economic crises, epidemics and hurricanes, our material, scientific and technical resources are ever more abundant. The protection of our people will always take first place in our efforts. There could be no higher priority. 
References to the original: Speech made on the current world crisis, on the occasion of his inauguration as President of the Republic of Cuba, march 6, 2003

“Today the crisis the world is going through does not and cannot affect only one country, a subcontinent or a continent; it affects everyone. Therefore, that imperial system and the economic order it has imposed on the world cannot be sustained. Peoples which have decided to fight, not only for their independence but also for their very survival can never be defeated, even when we are talking of only one people”.

References to the original: Remarks at a ceremony to present the Order of "Carlos Manuel de Cespedes" to the President of Venezuela, December 14, 2004

"Humanity can be saved, for the empire is enduring a profound crisis. Without crises, no change is possible, without crises, no awareness can be built. A day of crisis can raise the awareness of people to a greater extent than 10 uneventful years, than 10 years without a crisis."

References to the original: Speech given at the World Conference Dialogue among Civilizations, March 30, 2005
"[...…]let the poor countries receive some financing to produce ethanol from corn or any other foodstuff and very soon not a single tree will be left standing to protect humanity from climate change.."
References to the original: More than Three Billion People in the World are being Condemned to a Premature Death from Hunger and Thirst, March 28, 2007

"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 raw materials, energy, advanced technology industries, the most productive lands and the most modern buildings on the face of our planet with paper money".

References to the original: Deliberate lies, strange deaths and agression to the world economy, September 18, 2007