I have never considered myself an economist.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.

If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America.

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

A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.

I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was the leader of our revolution and who had the most outstanding role in the direction of the revolutionary struggle and directs the strategy of the Cuban government.