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Democracy is not just turning up to vote every five or four years, it’s much more than that, it’s a way of life, it’s giving power to the people.

— Hugo Chávez

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Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

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I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

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