The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.