We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

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.

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

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.