Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.
Hugo Chávez was a Venezuelan politician, revolutionary and military officer who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. He renamed the country the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and led what he called the Bolivarian revolution. The political ideology built around his ideas is known as Chavismo.
He led the Fifth Republic Movement from its founding in 1997 until it merged with other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the ruling party since 2007. Born into a middle-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, he became a career military officer. Dissatisfied with the political system based on the Puntofijo Pact, he founded the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 in the early 1980s.
He led the Fifth Republic Movement from its founding in 1997 until it merged with other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the ruling party since 2007. Born into a middle-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, he became a career military officer. Dissatisfied with the political system based on the Puntofijo Pact, he founded the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 in the early 1980s.
We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.
Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.
I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.
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.
I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion.
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.
I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.