Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.

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.

I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.

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 am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

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