Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

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.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.