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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In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.
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Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.
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Long live the Unity of Latin America.
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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.
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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.
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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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We have suffered from this tragedy as though we were from Martinique, as though we were French, ... I pray that this tragedy ... on Venezuelan soil helps us reinforce our unity ... We are all Caribbean.