I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

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 It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.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 left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

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

We also exchange oil for software technology. Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade. We believe in fair trade and exchange, not competition but cooperation. I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

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.

Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.