Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Fríaswas a Venezuelan politician who served as the 64th President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013. He was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, which he led until 2012...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 July 1954
CitySabaneta, Venezuela
latin america long
Long live the Unity of Latin America.
eugenics path socialism
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
democracy world way
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
democracy impossible injustice
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
dog jobs people
Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.
path revolution violent
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
justice everyday mind
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.
oil hemisphere world
Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor.
competition unions saws
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,
wish world imf
I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.
latin government years
Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.
rights people water
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.
hate hair racism
Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.
snakes fascists humans
Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.