Ricardo Alarcon
Ricardo Alarcon
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesadais a Cuban statesman. He served as Cuba's Permanent Representative to the United Nationsfor nearly 30 years and later served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1993. Subsequently Alarcón was President of the National Assembly of People's Power from 1993 to 2013, and because of this post, was considered the third-most powerful figure in Cuba. He also was a Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba until 2013...
NationalityCuban
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 May 1937
CountryCuba
It's like a work of art ... the work doesn't disappear when the author disappears,
The news pained and saddened Cubans. In their name, we wish to express our profound solidarity with the people of the United States, state and local authorities and the victims of this catastrophe.
That (prediction) is based on the assumption that you have just trouble with one man. But this is not a personal affair and it is not a personal matter -- it's a social phenomenon. It's a social process that involves millions of Cubans and not just one man.
What they have planned is what the Americans call a 'photo opportunity.
We are prepared to forget the past, to look towards the future and to accommodate ourselves with a new relationship with America.
We are not going to encourage illegal (emigration). Far from that. We will continue to do everything within our commitment to avoid that.
The boy belongs to his father, belongs to his family, and nobody should interfere with that,
The United States only accepts reports that are favorable. It is not surprising it continues to ignore the U.N. whenever convenient.
I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.
Our view is that the Elian Gonzalez event may help us precisely to improve relations.
President Carter represents the future, a day when there will be a mutual respect and a good neighbor policy between the U.S. and Cuba, a future with a policy based on certain moral and ethical values.
I believe in the word of the U.S. authorities. They have expressed themselves clearly in the proper relation. Let's hope that they will find a way to simply convert its words into actions.
The congress will bring ratification, reiteration of the fundamentals of the revolution.
The law is not working. It cannot work. It will not work. After the law, we have continued trading with other countries, receiving foreign partners.