Let the dogs of the empire bark, that’s their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.
We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.
I haven’t any thirst for revenge.
Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they’ve done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.
If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.
What hurts me most is poverty, and that’s what led me to become a rebel.
Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention – and saying no to death.
Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews.
But Cuba doesn’t have a dictatorship it’s a revolutionary democracy.
Venezuela has changed forever.
I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.
What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.
I’m not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.
Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.
Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus – a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.
I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.
Mr. Bush is an illegitimate President. In Florida, his brother Jeb deleted many black voters from the electoral registers. So this President is the result of a fraud.
I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.
Some people point to me as the cause of all society’s problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!