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,
We will do whatever is convenient for him (the father) according to his wishes in order to solve this problem.
Even if they invited us, we would not have come.
Fidel is really a special case. He's a personality of history.
What the world should fight is the monopoly that some have over weapons of mass destruction and, in particular, nuclear arms.
What the U.S. government should do is grant them freedom immediately, ... If they want to accuse them of something else, then accuse them, present evidence, and search for an impartial tribunal.
We have gotten the same message from U.S. officials -- in private -- several times that it is not advisable for this man to appear in U.S. territory,
I don't have the slightest doubt that any honest person analyzing this case will arrive at the same conclusion (as the appeals court),
No one has the right to monopolize any source of energy fundamental for humanity.
Nobody should expect from the congress the abandonment of what our revolution has meant.
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 think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.
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.