The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].

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.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

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.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

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.

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].