World Leader
Fidel Castro
Cuban leader
1926 – 2016
316
Total Mentions
4
Direct Quotes
1948
First Mention
2024
Latest Mention
Most Frequent Citing Countries
Cuba(184)Nicaragua(13)Cuba (12)El Salvador(10)Chile(7)Venezuela(6)Brazil(6)(6)
Direct Quotations (4)
"[W]e Cubans are ready to resist a situation of confrontation, which we do not desire, and we hope that the most lucid minds in the United States Government can avoid it."
2019Cuba
View Speech"The sounds of weapons, of threatening language, and of arrogant behaviour in the international arena must cease. We have had enough of the illusion that the problems of the world can be solved by nuclear weapons. Bombs may kill the hungry, the sick, and the ignorant, but they cannot kill hunger, disease or ignorance. Nor can they kill the righteous rebellion of the peoples."
2006Cuba
View Speech"Our world faces two deadly and hitherto unknown dilemmas, peace or total self-destruction, and a just international economic order or the most horrible fate for the vast majority of the peoples of the earth represented here, even if peace prevailed."
1986Cuba
View Speech"The imperialists and their reactionary servants oppose Cuba"
1978Cuba
View SpeechAll Mentions (96)
1991·Cuba
Viewnto account the damaging consequences that it will have from the humanitarian standpoint. In his statement to the General Assembly in 1960, President Fidel Castro stated that at the beginning of this century: "After two years of military occupation of our country, something unexpected occurred. Just when the Cu
1989·Cuba
Viewom the climate of detente. As the first Vice-President of the Council of state and of the Council of Ministers of Ministers, General of the Army Raul Castro stated at the Ninth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries: "The security and peace of the rich are not the security and peace for which the poor
1984·Burkina Faso
View view, there must be serious studies of all the factors which have led to the calamities which have befallen the world. In this connection, President Fidel Castro stated our view admirably at the opening of the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Havana in Septembe
1982·Cuba
Viewng the peoples, which have learned now that firmness is the position of principle to hold in the face of the imperialists. On 26 July 1982, President Fidel Castro stated that We are not in favor of wars. We are in favor of peace, in favor of solutions. We are well aware of the consequences a war would have for
1963·
View in other parts of the world, and our people and our Government welcome this relaxation, because we are in favour of peace; but as our Prime Minister Fidel Castro stated last week, we shall not accept with equanimity a situation in which tensions decrease, but increase for us. 159.
1949·El Salvador
ViewMr. Castro stated that the election of General Romulo, head of the Philippine delegation, as President of the General Assembly pointed to an advance of that dem
2024·Venezuela
Viewthey mercilessly attack, with the support of local oligarchies, the government of President Gustavo Petro, in Colombia, and that of President Xiomara Castro of Honduras. Our firm support and unwavering solidarity with them as well. Mr. President, 30. On 28 July, as is customary in our revolutionary democr
2023·Cuba
Views ago. I spoke for the first time from this rostrum (see A/73/PV.8). where once stood the historic leader of the Cuban revolution. Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz. and Army General Raul Castro Ruz. to speak these truths and the ideals of peace and justice of a small archipelago that has resisted and will co
2023·Burkina Faso
Viewd the hopes and dreams for a just and equitable world through their commitment, determination and spirit of sacrifice. I am thinking in particular of Fidel Castro of Cuba. Patrice Emery Lumumba of the Congo. Modibo Keita of Mali. Ruben Um Nyobe and Felix Mournie of Cameroon. Sylvanus Olympic of Togo. Che Guevar
2023·Nicaragua
Viewt do not falter in the struggle for security and peace so as to confront and conquer the hell of poverty. To Honduras and its brave President Xiomara Castro Sarmiento — Honduras, our fraternal neighbour, where Morazan and Sandino prevail — we offer our familial, fraternal embrace in unflagging solidarity.
2022·Cuba
Viewthout further delay. The philosophy of war and plunder and the unreasonable production and consumption patterns of capitalism, denounced by President Fidel Castro, will lead to a calamity. International relations are on a very dangerous path. The United States offensive aimed at subjugating States by means of t
2021·Cuba
View reiterate before the respectable and real community of nations that every year votes almost unanimously against the blockade, what Army General Raul Castro expressed some years ago: “.. .Cuba is not afraid of lies, nor does it give in to pressures, conditions or impositions, wherever these may come from.
2020·Republic of Cuba
View” That was announced one day by the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution and chief sponsor of scientific development in Cuba: Commander in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz. That's our motto. Saving lives and sharing what we are and have, no matter any sacrifice it takes; that is what we are offering to the world fro
2020·Republic of Nicaragua
View and commercial blockade, that is causing the worthy people of Cuba great suffering. We reaffirm our enduring solidarity with the legacy of Commander Fidel Castro, with General Raul Castro and with the President of sovereign Cuba, our brother Miguel Diaz-Canel. We reaffirm our strong support for the sister Boli
2019·Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
ViewIt appears that five decades is not long enough for the United States to realize that Cuba will never surrender. Fidel Castro’s Cuba will never submit to any imperialist design after having spent over five decades resisting the economic blockade. What will make them realize
2019·Federative Republic of Brazil
Viewsure that no other South American country will experience this nefarious scourge. The Sao Paulo Forum, a criminal organization established in 1990 by Fidel Castro, Lula da Silva and Hugo Chavez to spread and implement socialism throughout Latin America, remains alive and must be fought. In the quest for prosper
2018·Cuba
View speaking from this rostrum on behalf of Cuba and not recall historic moments before the General Assembly that are among our most cherished memories. Fidel Castro, Ernesto Guevara, Raúl Castro Ruz and the Chancellor of Dignity, Raúl Roa, to mention only the most illustrious, here raised their voices on behalf n
2017·Cuba
ViewI still have vivid and emotional memories of the imposing presence of Fidel Castro Ruz, Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Revolution, and the great validity of the ideas he expressed to the General Assembly. On behalf of our people an
2015·Cuba
Viewe United Nations should be defended from unilateralism and should be deeply reformed to democratize it and bring it closer to the peoples. As Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz, the historic leader of the Cuban revolution, stated in this same Hall 15 years ago “Everyone understands that the United Nations basic role in t
2015·Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
View as those in Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua. Venezuela is on the same path as the historic Cuban revolution and is following the example of Commander Fidel Castro Ruz, President Raúl Castro Ruz and the Cuban people. Our people have waged a great battle while facing domestic and foreign conspiracies. Recently, w
2015·Benin
Viewly to see we are moving towards a complete lifting of the United States embargo on Cuba and the progress made. We want to commend both President Raul Castro Ruz and President Barack Obama for their spectacular courage in being able to wipe the slate clean and being able to build a future of hope for the t
2015·Saint Kitts and Nevis
Viewlding in the areas of education and health thanks to our partnership with Cuba. We applaud several prescriptions outlined in the address of President Castro to the Assembly (see A/70/PV.14) that call for better arrangements for Caribbean countries and for special and differential treatment. We concur that
2015·Tanzania, United Republic of
Viewthe people of Cuba and the people of the United States in celebrating that landmark achievement. We commend President Barack Obama and President Raúl Castro Ruz for their bold and courageous leadership. The two leaders and countries have proved to all of us the power of dialogue in finding solutions even
2015·Bolivia, Plurinational State of
View for all. We hope that the words we heard this morning from President Obama will be followed up with action to lifte the economic blockade. President Castro, my brother, rightly said that with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States we have declared a zone of peace. We might have a little pro
2015·Argentina
Viewcity. I also wish to pay homage to the continent of which I feel I am a daughter, Latin America. Not long before I spoke, the President of Cuba, Raứl Castro, a President and a comrade whom I love and admire, spoke to the Assembly. For the first time in 17 years the President of Cuba is back here in the Ge
2015·Mali
ViewI commend the efforts, courage and political realism of President Barack Obama and President Raúl Castro Ruz, as well as of Pope Francis. Pope Francis is a man of peace and a man of heart, as he showed last Friday when he addressed the nations of the wor
2015·Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
ViewThis year, Presidents Obama and Castro have demonstrated laudable courage in working together to move past years of enmity and mutual mistrust. But the welcome détente between the two coun
2014·Nicaragua
Viewcelebrate the tenth anniversary of its founding, resulting from the unifying vision of the Latin American and Caribbean leaders Hugo Chávez Frias and Fidel Castro Ruz. These steps towards regional integration have borne fruit with the creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, through whi
2012·Cuba
Viewother institutional entity in our hemisphere in the course of the last century is of such major importance, wrote the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, about CELAC. We know that CELAC still has not yet reached its full development, so that our peoples can go forward in ranks as compact as the ve
2012·Bolivia
View of democracy and of defending democracy. In that connection, I must express our full backing for the Cuban people. Their commander, former President Fidel Castro, the most caring person in the world that I have ever known — and I admire that revolutionary people — is, despite the embargo, engaged in continuous
2012·Saint Vincent and Grenadines
Viewy context, is to cheapen our shared global struggle against that insidious scourge. In his famous 1960 speech to the General Assembly, then President Fidel Castro observed that hysteria could go to any length and was capable of making the most far-fetched and absurd claims. That particular absurd and far-fetche
2011·Cuba
Viewrofiteering from the war and the reconstruction operations, as if they were agents of crisis containment. As early as 21 February, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz warned that NATO was irrevocably preparing a war against Libya.
2011·Nicaragua
View due in large part to Nicaragua’s integration into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas, an initiative stemming from the genius of Fidel Castro, the Commander in Chief of the Cuban revolution, and of Commander- President Hugo Chávez Frías. This brotherhood, unique in today’s world, enables so
2010·Cuba
ViewYesterday was exactly the fiftieth anniversary of the first speech of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz in this Hall, with that memorable sentence that if the philosophy of plunder disappears, then the philosophy of war will have disappeared (see A/
2009·Cuba
ViewToday, that solidarity remains as indispensable as ever. As Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz said from this very rostrum nine years ago: “Nothing in the existing economic and political order serves the interests of humankind. Thus this or
2009·Nicaragua
Viewus solidarity of the fraternal people and Government of Cuba, which has been consistent and has perpetuated the internationalist calling of Commander Fidel Castro Ruz. The Government of Nicaragua has opened the door to production credits. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) selecte
2009·Venezuela
ViewNot long ago, Fidel Castro mentioned in one of his reflections that a company known throughout the world that manufactures and supplies medical equipment did not meet its oblig
2008·Cuba
Viewes to justice and development are respected. To conclude, I would like to recall the words of the Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Revolution, Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz: “A world without hunger is possible. ... A just world is possible. A new world, which our species eminently deserves, is possible and will becom
2008·Brazil
Viewer democracy with the intense participation of our people. In the year when we commemorate the one-hundredth birthday of the great Brazilian Josué de Castro — the first Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and a pioneer in the studies concerning the problem of hu
2007·Cuba
Viewd that weapons are useless in resolving the critical problems of humankind? On a day like today, it is worth recalling the words uttered by President Fidel Castro in this General Assembly in October 1979: “Let us say farewell to arms, and let us in a civilized manner dedicate ourselves to the most pressing prob
2007·Nicaragua
Viewrning. He spoke of Cuba with a complete lack of respect while representing a system that ordered the assassination of its President, our dear brother Fidel Castro, whom we had for his extraordinary solidarity, firmness and principled consistency in his struggle for the cause of humankind. They have maintained a
2006·Venezuela
Viewent, which is important for the birth of the new era and the prevention of hegemony and imperialism. The Assembly will know that we elected President Fidel Castro Chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement for the next three years, and we can trust him to lead us very efficiently. Those who hoped that Fidel would die
2004·Cuba
View people. Once again, morality and principles will defeat arrogance and force. I conclude by recalling the words spoken here 25 years ago by President Fidel Castro: “The clashing of weapons, the threatening language and the overbearing behaviour in the international arena must cease. Enough of the illusion that
2000·Cuba
Viewica, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. Now, given the urgent appeal of the African countries, we would like to reiterate the offer that President Fidel Castro made to the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the developed countries during the Millennium Summit to cooperate with Africa in the fi
2000·Saint Lucia
ViewIt is these injustices and violations that have turned world opinion in favour of the embattled Caribbean country Cuba and have made its leader Fidel Castro a living symbol of the unconquerable spirit of our people to triumph over adversity and incredible odds. More than ever, the positives of a reformed
1999·Cuba
Viewe situation in Cuba was discussed, the then-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Allen Dulles, categorically stated: “We must prevent a Castro victory”. Three days later, on 26 December, President Eisenhower instructed the CIA that he did not wish the specifics of covert operations against C
1998·Cuba
ViewThese are so illegitimate that no one should support them. We, the victims, cannot be expected think as our victimizers do. As Comrade Fidel Castro said only a few weeks ago at the twelfth Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, “it is not possible to acquiesce in a world order which embodies to the
1998·Saint Lucia
Viewsist on living by brotherly principles and values. The focus for moral leadership might have shifted to the developing world, with Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro as the twin peaks of international inspiration. It is their lifelong struggle for human rights that must become the touchstone for our developmental
1998·Costa Rica
View abolition of the army was the culmination of my countryâs long anti-militaristic history. In 1866, the then President of Costa Rica, Mr. José Mar'a Castro, stated that one of the foundations of external peace is a strict adherence to international law, among whose prescriptions, as listed by President C
1994·Brazil
View, by virtue of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, definitively free from nuclear weapons. Cuba’s adherence to the Treaty, announced in a letter from President Fidel Castro to President Itamar Franco - in response to a Brazilian initiative - has brought this process to a conclusion. Latin America has been a factor of int
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| 1991 | Cuba | View |
| 1989 | Cuba | View |
| 1984 | Burkina Faso | View |
| 1982 | Cuba | View |
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| 1949 | El Salvador | View |
| 2024 | Venezuela | View |
| 2023 | Cuba | View |
| 2023 | Burkina Faso | View |
| 2023 | Nicaragua | View |
| 2022 | Cuba | View |
| 2021 | Cuba | View |
| 2020 | Republic of Cuba | View |
| 2020 | Republic of Nicaragua | View |
| 2019 | Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela | View |
| 2019 | Federative Republic of Brazil | View |
| 2018 | Cuba | View |
| 2017 | Cuba | View |
| 2015 | Cuba | View |
| 2015 | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | View |
| 2015 | Benin | View |
| 2015 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | View |
| 2015 | Tanzania, United Republic of | View |
| 2015 | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | View |
| 2015 | Argentina | View |
| 2015 | Mali | View |
| 2015 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | View |
| 2014 | Nicaragua | View |
| 2012 | Cuba | View |
| 2012 | Bolivia | View |
| 2012 | Saint Vincent and Grenadines | View |
| 2011 | Cuba | View |
| 2011 | Nicaragua | View |
| 2010 | Cuba | View |
| 2009 | Cuba | View |
| 2009 | Nicaragua | View |
| 2009 | Venezuela | View |
| 2008 | Cuba | View |
| 2008 | Brazil | View |
| 2007 | Cuba | View |
| 2007 | Nicaragua | View |
| 2006 | Venezuela | View |
| 2004 | Cuba | View |
| 2000 | Cuba | View |
| 2000 | Saint Lucia | View |
| 1999 | Cuba | View |
| 1998 | Cuba | View |
| 1998 | Saint Lucia | View |
| 1998 | Costa Rica | View |
| 1994 | Brazil | View |
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