The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead.

As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.

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.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.

With a military American base in our territory, where there could be any sort of weapons, where we have to endure every kind of provocations, we have to support and endure the flights over our territory.

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.