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"Beating the Yankees in agriculture is to defeat their main weapon, or one of the main weapons which they have been using against our Revolution, which is the weapon of the economic blockade, that is to say, the weapon of hunger."

References to the original: Clôture du Troisième Congrès national de l’Association nationale des petits agriculteurs (ANAP), à l’Institut technologique Rubén Martínez Villena, 18 mai 1967.
“Thank you for coming as a reinforcement in this difficult struggle that we are waging today to save the ideas you fought for so much, to save the Revolution, the homeland and the achievements of socialism, which is the materialization of some of your biggest dreams. We count on you to carry out this enormous feat, to destroy the imperialist plots against Cuba, to resist the blockade and to attain victory. "
References to the original: At the main ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the death in combat of the Heroic Guerrilla Fighter and his comrades held during the burial of their remains in the mausoleum of the city of Santa Clara, October 17, 1997

"The Revolution's work is not limited to material work, it has worked on people's consciousness, on their soul, preparing the human being as the human being of tomorrow, of the future, should be, and fighting against the lies, fighting against the dirtiest and gross propaganda, fighting against blockade and fighting against the harassment that tries to weaken the Revolution, to weaken its morale, its consciousness".

References to the original: SPEECH AT THE CLOSING OF THE SECOND SPECIAL EDUCATION WORLD MEETIN

“The country did all it could and is doing all it can in matters of education. And it has been able to maintain what we have despite the worsening of the blockade”.

References to the original: Speech at the Closing of the Second Special Education World Meeting, 20 june 1998

"What Cuba has done for the human being, it has done with extraordinarily humane methods. In this blockaded country, there has never been a case of a banished person throughout its history; in this blockaded country, there are no death squads, which even kill children who live in the streets; in this blockaded country, no one can mention a single case of political assassination. And something else, as I tell many people: in this country, which struggles against that empire, there is not a single case of torture, not a single case (...)"

References to the original: SPEECH BY COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF FIDEL CASTRO AT THE CLOSING OF THE SECOND SPECIAL EDUCATION WORLD MEETING. Karl Marx Theater, Havana. 20 June 1998

"The various US administrations with their blockade, their constant harassment and their exclusions have given us the possibility of fighting them in full and of being even joyful to be excluded in exchange for the freedom to speak without compromise in any forum of the world where there are so many fair causes to defend".

References to the original: Master lecture delivered by H.E. Dr. Fidel Castro, at the main lecture hall in the Central University of Venezuela, 3 February, 1999

“To begin with, I will say that neither in the first or the second half of this century nor at any other time in history has a country done or achieved as much in sports as Cuba in an extremely short period of time. And it is a small Third World country, one that is additionally subjected to an economic blockade by the wealthiest and mightiest nation on Earth as well as to a thousand different forms of harassment and aggression”.

References to the original: Speech delivered by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, August 13, 1999