Fidel Castro States Quotations

Let the blockade cease! The United States has no right to ask for or expect anything from us while they maintain the blockade.

If it weren't for that absurd and ridiculous embargo, the United States could receive vaccinations and other medical procedures from Cuba that could help save American lives.

We are mobilizing precisely to thwart the plans of those who don't want the child to return, ... This is not a demonstration against the United States and much less against the American people.

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?

You cannot do this without the authorization of the father, ... I sincerely think that this boy is at risk in the hands of desperate people, and the government of the United States should not be running this risk.

Sometimes I have the impression that our debates are unreal. It's as though the United States didn't exist, as though the empire and its hegemony didn't exist.

They have said that we want to move Cardenas (where Elian lived in Cuba) to the United States,

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.

It's nonsense, absolute nonsense, that the United States refuses to have a drug interdiction agreement for fear of the raving and ranting of a group of people in Miami, even though we're willing to do it in exchange for nothing,