"What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture."
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"Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations."
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"Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty."
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"I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon."
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"We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism."
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"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."
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"The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks]."
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"What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil."
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"Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony."
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"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."
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"I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs."
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"The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush."
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"Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral."
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"I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign."
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"I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy."
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"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."
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"Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade."
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"An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell."
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"If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand."
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"I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?"
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