Citas

“A year ago already, as expression of our sovereign political will, we decided to constitute the Association of Caribbean States.  We have before us a great challenge.  It is a matter of forging a mutual destiny for nations that are remarkably dissimilar in terms of size, population and development […] The region understands, ultimately, that the future path for our peoples lies in unity.”
References to the original: Fidel Castro attends the Summit Meeting of the Heads of Governments of the Member States of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Trade, Tourism and Transport, being held in Trinidad and Tobago, August 17, 1995
“We can rightly say that it was the cradle of South African liberation; but one day it will also be considered the cradle of African dignity. And it’s not that Africa has not fought, or that Africa has not carried out thousands and tens of thousands of heroic deeds but this was the most painful stronghold of a system of slavery and injustice that has existed for thousands of years, and particularly in the of Africa, Latin America and the Third World, it prevailed hundreds of years.”
References to the original: Visit to the Hector Peterson Memorial in commemoration of the massacre in Soweto, a township in the outskirts of Johannesburg, 5 September 1998

“We shall defend sovereignty as something sacred while some are very weak and others very powerful and while not everybody is willing to relinquish it in favour of a universal sovereignty”.

References to the original: Speech by Dr Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba at the First Summit between heads of state and government of Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union. Rio de Janeiro, June 29, 1999

“It should be clearly stated that the principle of sovereignty cannot be sacrificed to an abusive and unfair order that a hegemonic superpower uses, together with its own might and strength, to try to decide everything by itself”.

References to the original: Address to the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, New York, september 6, 2000
“We are a patriotic and honorable people that will never accept impositions or threats from anyone but we are also sincere friends of the United States, particularly of all the good Americans --who are many-- and we keep discovering many more.”
References to the original: Words of welcome for former US. President James Carter, May 12, 2002

"We are prepared to do without anything, including life, except our country’s dignity and sovereignty. We are not the ones attacking, being hostile to or blockading the United States. We are not demanding that its constitution and political and economic system be changed. We show the strictest respect for the rights of other countries. Our rights must also be respected".

References to the original: Speech given by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, president of the Republic of Cuba, at the extraordinary session of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Havana International Conference center. june 26, 2002