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

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

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

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

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

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.

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.