"To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia."

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Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

Alejandro Castro Espin

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