I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

Venezuela has changed forever, there is no turning back.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

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

In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.