a bunch of kidnappers. |
a model country that protects the lives of its citizens. |
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. |
also means defying the powerful forces inside and outside our country. |
And now, suddenly you discover that almost everything is behind you, and that life has its limits, |
Apart from the moral and political damage that this does, what hurts us the most is the idea that one single American citizen could think that from Cuban territory any harm would be waged against them, |
As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger |
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. |
Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me. |
Could it be that the government of the United States feels hurt that Cuba cooperates with a brother nation? Does that offend the U.S. government ... is it antidemocratic, is it a crime? |
Cuba has not solicited international aid, |
Cuba knows no fear and despises deceit; it listens with respect but believes in its ideas; it firmly defends its principles and has nothing to hide from the world, |
Cuba stands by Pakistan in this hour of trial, |
driven to death by that monstrous invention of the United States called the Cuban Adjustment Act. |
For every word you have said -- even those I might disagree with -- on behalf of all the Cuban people, Holy Father, I thank you! |