Citas

“For super-developed societies, the problem is not growth but distribution, and not only distribution amongst themselves, but distribution among all of them.  The sustainable growth we are talking about is impossible without a more just distribution among all countries.”
References to the original: Speech given to the First World Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Developing Island States, Barbados, May 5, 1994
“Despite so much euphoria no one can be sure of how long the United States economic system, ruled by the blind laws of the market economy, will be able to prevent a financial meltdown. There are no economic miracles.”
References to the original: Speech at the session commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the creation of the Multilateral Trade System, Geneva, Switzerland, May 19, 1998

"(...) today to be economists of the people—I repeat—they must be political economists; and politicians must be politicians with a minimum of economic knowledge and if it is possible with a maximum of knowledge in that field, that today is really the basis on which the fate of humanity depends, the basis on which our struggles are being carried out. And the politicians who do not understand, or do not want to understand, or who do not strive to know economics, are not worthy of exercising the duty they exercise as such politicians".

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

“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

"It cannot be ignored that market principles are an inseparable part of the historical development of mankind but any rational man has every right to reject the supposed perpetuity of said social principles as the basis for the subsequent development of the human species."

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

"The market's most fanatical advocates and followers have ended up making it a new religion. Thus arises the theology of the market. Its scholars are theologians rather  than scientists.  For them, it is a matter of faith.  Out of respect for the genuine religions honestly practiced by billions of people in the world, and for the genuine theologians, we might simply add that the theology of the market is sectarian, fundamentalist and anti-ecumenical."

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

"(...) will be to determine consumption patterns. It is not possible to continue introducing tastes and ways of life inspired in the squandering model of the industrial societies; it would not only be impossible but suicidal."

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