Citas

"We achieved full political sovereignty for the first time on January 1, 1959 when, after sweeping away the bloody tyranny imposed from abroad, the Cuban people began governing the nation. Since then, this noble and heroic people have not failed one single day to defend its right to development, justice, peace and liberty.".

References to the original: Words at the start of the Long March of the Fighting People of the capital against terrorism, May 17, 2005
“ [...] The empire acquired a large part of the world’s wealth with paper, imposing their United States laws there, scorning the sovereignty of nations.”
References to the original: Cuba’s self-criticism, July 10, 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 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
"Unable to resign themselves to the independence and exercise of the sovereign rights of Cuba, the government of that country adopted the decision to invade our territory.  The USSR had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.  The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the USSR; it was the other way around: support from the USSR was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution.  To such a degree, that when the USSR disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist."
References to the original: THE TIME HAS COME TO DO SOMETHING , January 19, 201.

“We have rather a powerful adversary: our closest neighbor the United States.  We warned them that we would resist the blockade even though it would mean a very high cost for our country.  There is no greater price to pay than that of capitulating to an enemy who is attacking you without right or reason”.

References to the original: IF FAIR IDEAS DO NOT TRIUMPH, DISASTER WILL, August 31, 2014

“With a pitiless blockade lasting for almost 60 years, and those who have died in mercenary attacks on Cuban ships and ports, an airliner full of passengers exploded in mid-flight, mercenary invasions, multiple acts of violence and force? Nobody could be so naive as to think that this noble and self-sacrificing people would renounce glory and their rights, and the spiritual richness they have earned with the development of education, science and culture”.

References to the original: Brother Obama, 27 March 2016

"(...) the first human right is the right to think, the right to believe, the right to live, the right to know, the right to know dignity, the right to be treated like other human beings, the right to be independent, right to sovereignty as a people, right to dignity as a man".

References to the original: Speech Given at the closing ceremony of the “World Conference Dialogue among Civilizations. Latin America in the 21st Century: Universalism and Originality