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
oil world forget
The world should forget about cheap oil. [The price] will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.
believe government our-world
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, moral.
christian justice world
I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.
world imperialism threat
The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism.
lying world said
It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.
path world socialism
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
empires world said
Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!
doubt world haunting
To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.
environmental world privileged
We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
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.
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.
wish world imf
I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.
elite governing government
What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
disease remedy worse
It would start, as they say in my village, is worse the remedy than the disease.