There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

I don't really have a realistic life. Anyway, I am a schizophrenic so there two persons in me. Because I am the person I put on for the public and the person that I am really . . . deep inside me. So I have to cover it all up with . . . glamour and all that bullshit . . . make-up . . . glamour, dresses, color, etc., etc. . . . trying to hide a very . . . fragile person, really . . . very vulnerable to attack.

What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.