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.

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.

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

I haven't any thirst for revenge.