Hugo Chavez Quotes
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The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].
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I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.
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The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
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We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
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What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.
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But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.
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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
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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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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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I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
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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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Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.
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Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews.
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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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We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.
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Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.
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Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.
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I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
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No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.
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For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.
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I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
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Long live the Unity of Latin America.
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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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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.
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The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.
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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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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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Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.
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I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
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Hugo Chavez
- Born: July 28, 1954
- Died: March 5, 2013
- Occupation: Former President of Venezuela
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