We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree that the break is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. It is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end.

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

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

It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.

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

I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.