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We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

Hugo Chavez

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Hugo Chavez
Age: 58 †
Born: 1954
Born: July 28
Died: 2013
Died: March 5
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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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Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.
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I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
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What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.
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That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.
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I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
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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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The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
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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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Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews.
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Venezuela has changed forever.
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Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.
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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
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I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.
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It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox, really it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire.
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If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.
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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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Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.
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