Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another.

We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary.

I understand that the American people has a right and especially the press, which is not very friendly to us, to make all suppositions and ideas about this fact [suicide by Augusto Martinez] - this disgraced fact.