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

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

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

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.

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

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

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.