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

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

Venezuela has changed forever, there is no turning back.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

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.

The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.