We have a lot of friends, but not among the governments - the friends are in the peoples. And in the last instance the peoples will be the rulers of those states.

The fact of the attempted suicide by Augusto Martinez was explained in a concise and exact form by our government in a communique. There is absolutely nothing else to add.

While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.

Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.