Interviews from Havana – Ricardo Alarcon on Cuban Independence

Today Cristina Escobar speaks with statesman, diplomat and former National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada. Our guest doesn’t fear domination because the U.S. has finally hoisted its flag on Cuban soil, as every other country in the world has done. Cuba, he says, will continue to be a small independent nation next to a big country that poses a threat to humanity. One challenge is to strengthen democracy. How? By continuing to uphold a system of social and economic justice and equality in which the voters control the elected officials --in which the people aren’t spectators, but protagonists. teleSUR