In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

It is said that our indigenous ancestors, Mayas and Aztecs, made human sacrifices to their gods. It occurs to me to ask: How many humans have been sacrificed to the gods of Capital in the last five hundred years?

Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.

The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

... only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks.

I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?"

In my opinion, peace has not come to America, to Nicaragua, or to El Salvador. A hungry people is a people without peace. If the demands of the people are not met, what kind of peace are we talking about?