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I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

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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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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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Venezuela has changed forever.
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Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.
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Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.
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If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.
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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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Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.
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I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
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I haven't any thirst for revenge.
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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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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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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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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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What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.
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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 you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.
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When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.
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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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