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

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

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.

For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.

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

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

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.