I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.

When I see Messi - who is the best player in the world in my opinion - lose the ball, he runs off until he gets it back or commits a foul. Our guys lose the ball and fold their arms.

The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.