Hugo Chávez Quotes
1954–2013 Venezuela
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was the President of Venezuela from 1999 until March 2013.
Also known as: Hugo Chavez
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The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat … is represented by U.S. imperialism.
Private property is that which belong to natural or legal persons and that it is recognize under legitimately acquired fixed assets and consumer goods and means of production.
For now, lamentably, the objectives we considered were not achieved in the capital.
Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.
Enough already with the imperialist aggression! Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!
I call on private businessmen to work together with us to build the new economy, transforming the capitalist economic model into a social, humanist and equality economy.
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.
I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.
Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.
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.
I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either.
This Sunday, what’s at stake is not whether a man stays in power but a political model that is confronting capitalism and neoliberalism. This NO is traversing the whole continent from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.
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.
I give you a replica of liberator Simon Bolivar's sword. For you who, like Bolivar, took up arms to liberate your people. For you who, like Bolivar, are and will always be a true freedom fighter. [Mugabe] continues, alongside his people, to confront the pretensions of new imperialists.
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.
I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. … Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?
Within the framework of capitalism it is impossible to solve the challenges of fighting against poverty, misery, exploitation and inequality.
Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation, of the kind of misery and inequality that destroys social values. If you really look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ - who I think was the first socialist - only socialism can really create a genuine society.
We have arrived again to Venezuela, Thank God. Thanks to my beloved country.
It's not about nationalize the entire economy, (...) No, our socialism accepts private property. It's only that this private property must be within the framework of a constitution and laws and of a social interest.