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Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all, I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today - ethics, and moral...[Capitalism is] an infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
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I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
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The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.
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Go to hell, gringos! Go home!... What does the empire want? Condoleezza said it. How are you? You've forgotten me, missy... Condoleezza said it clearly, it's about creating a new geopolitical map in the Middle East... They took out Saddam Hussein and they hung him, for better or worse. It's not up to me to judge any government, but that gentleman was the president of that country.
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We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.
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The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat … is represented by U.S. imperialism.
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Liberator of Libya, He will be remembered as a great fighter, a revolutionary and martyr. They assassinated him. It is another outrage.
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Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.
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I have found yet another friend here. And with such a friend we will together form a team, like a soccer team. This will be a fighting team.
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The world should forget about cheap oil. [The price] will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.
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What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.
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When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force. The attacks on Venezuela are a sign of weakness, ideological weakness. Nowadays almost nobody defends neoliberalism. Up until three years ago, just Fidel [Castro] and I raised those criticisms at Presidential meetings. We felt lonely, as if we infiltrated those meetings.
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We see here a model social state like the one we are beginning to create.
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Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.
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Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.
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Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.
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But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship — it's a revolutionary democracy.
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If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.
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Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can not be transcended through capitalism itself; it must be done through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I'm also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.
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It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.
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It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox, really it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire.
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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
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Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire
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Mr. Obama decided to attack us, Now you want to win votes by attacking Venezuela. Don't be irresponsible. You are a clown, a clown. Leave us in peace … Go after your votes by fulfilling that which you promised your people.
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We have arrived again to Venezuela, Thank God. Thanks to my beloved country.
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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
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Born:
July 28, 1954
Died:
March 5, 2013
(aged 58)
Bio:
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, commonly known as Hugo Chavez, was a Venezuelan politician who was President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013.
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