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.

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

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

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.

What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

Mr. Bush is an illegitimate President. In Florida, his brother Jeb deleted many black voters from the electoral registers. So this President is the result of a fraud.