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Mariela Castro Espín (born 27 July 1962) is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana and an activist for LGBT rights in Cuba. She is the daughter of former Cuban president Raúl Castro and feminist and revolutionary Vilma Espín, and the niece of former president Fidel Castro.

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Cuba is a poor country. Most of the Cubans who leave only do so if they can find better economic conditions elsewhere. That's why we need changes. We have to offer incentives to keep people here. We have to create more attractive policies for young people, so that it also makes economic sense for them to stay. We need growth and a better quality of life for everyone.

Country, Growth, People, Policies, Poor

No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would have been a good candidate for prison, with my advocacy for sexual self-determination. Those people are in prison because they are mercenaries paid by Washington.

Country, Crime, Good, People, Prison

For me, sexual identity and orientation is a human right, which should also be accepted by the United Nations. Of course, innovations in this area provoke contradictions, especially in a society like ours, because Cuba has so many revolutionary processes.

Identity, Innovation, Nations, Revolutionary, Sexual, Society

We've been at this 56 years and. . . we love saying that we are a country in revolution, trying to create socialism, and we form part of a single party called the Communist Party.

Communist, Country, Love, Party, Revolution

I hope that the economic, financial and trade blockade against Cuba will be lifted, so that the economy can grow and wages can rise. But I also hope that we will not compromise our independence and become weak, and that we will never betray our ideals of equality and social justice. This is what our parents fought for, and we owe it to them.

Fought, Hope, Independence, Justice, Lifted, Parent

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