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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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Hugo Chavez
Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
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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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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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I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.
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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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I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
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I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
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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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Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire.
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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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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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I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.
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It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.
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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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