"Using armored vehicles, tear gas -- which even made the delegations staying in
hotels queasy -- and, on top of that, pepper gas. Brutal methods, dragging
people through the streets. Six hundred arrested. What would happen if such
behavior took place in Cuba? What would they say if they saw an army, the
National Guard, occupying the city? Tons of masked men with horrifying
outfits to scare people, thousands of police in all directions, men being
dragged, horses and other animals to attack people? They would say that it
was a flagrant and massive violation of human rights and that, therefore,
they had to use the NATO formula to conduct a 'humanitarian' intervention."
-Fidel Castro, receiving the Cuban delegation upon its return from Seattle