Venezuela has changed forever.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.