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
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Well we can try to measure democracy, just as you measure temperature with a thermometer, or pressure with a barometer.
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I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.
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But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.
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We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
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The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
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Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
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What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
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It would start, as they say in my village, is worse the remedy than the disease.
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The United States brought the attacks upon itself, for their arrogant imperialist foreign policy,
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Dr. King spoke about about the road towards the palace of justice, and that made me remember of Bolivar, who said that justice must be the queen of all virtues,
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We have detected with intelligence reports plans of a supposed invasion, one that would never happen. But we have to denounce it,
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we should continue with this process, whose only queen is equality
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We are very saddened by this tragedy, ... turned off.
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Yesterday was very interesting, ... Some defended free trade, while we proposed various alternatives beyond the mirages of a free trade agreement.